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I would love to see a partnership for all the major music festivals being mapped out. Sure, they hand out maps but it would so much better to whip out my phone.

I would love to see a partnership for all the major music festivals being mapped out. Sure, they hand out maps but it would so much better to whip out my phone. I went to Bonnaroo this year and would have appreciated something like this. Hiking, great idea also. How about, INSIDE GROCERY STORES? I don't do much of the shopping in my household but when I do, it is usually a frustrating process finding everything on my (her) list. It could be crowd sourced like Waze whereby if Big Box stores do a floor move, you could report on it. "Crepes got moved to Aisle 3" "The Sale section is now here" and look at a visualization of this data. Categorize it by color, etc. The answer to "Where do they keep the...?" How's that for a killer app idea. FUCKING IKEA! I'll work on this with someone. Please give me an excuse to quit my day job.

andrewljohnson 13y ago
1) If you ever go to Burning Man, we do the free, open source app for that: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iburn-2012-burning-man-map/id388169740?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iburn-2012-burning-man-map/i... 2) Hiking is where we started. We make the top selling hiking GPS app, the one that people consider to be the true Garmin analog, with all the benefits of the network connected smart phone: http://www.gaiagps.com/ http://www.gaiagps.com/ 3) Inside grocery stores is tricky because GPS doesn't work in doors. There is nascent tech that does work, though.
- instaheat 13y ago
  Very cool! I will download it prior to my next hiking trip. http://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethwoyke/2011/12/22/microsoft-motorola-nokia-and-rim-to-battle-google-over-indoor-location-market/2/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethwoyke/2011/12/22/micros...
pigscantfly 13y ago
A partnership between app developers and event production companies would be great; I was at EDC Las Vegas a few weeks ago, and the promotion company, Insomniac Events, produced their own app for the festival. Sounds great, right? Only problem was that their app refused to display the event map and set times without a live network connection. With 300,000+ people in one place, you can forget about 4g, so despite downloading the app in advance, I ended up just using paper maps/set lists the whole weekend. Huge waste of paper and time.

andrewljohnson 13y ago

1) If you ever go to Burning Man, we do the free, open source app for that: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iburn-2012-burning-man-map/id388169740?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iburn-2012-burning-man-map/i... 2) Hiking is where we started. We make the top selling hiking GPS app, the one that people consider to be the true Garmin analog, with all the benefits of the network connected smart phone: http://www.gaiagps.com/ http://www.gaiagps.com/ 3) Inside grocery stores is tricky because GPS doesn't work in doors. There is nascent tech that does work, though.

instaheat 13y ago
Very cool! I will download it prior to my next hiking trip. http://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethwoyke/2011/12/22/microsoft-motorola-nokia-and-rim-to-battle-google-over-indoor-location-market/2/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethwoyke/2011/12/22/micros...

pigscantfly 13y ago

A partnership between app developers and event production companies would be great; I was at EDC Las Vegas a few weeks ago, and the promotion company, Insomniac Events, produced their own app for the festival. Sounds great, right? Only problem was that their app refused to display the event map and set times without a live network connection. With 300,000+ people in one place, you can forget about 4g, so despite downloading the app in advance, I ended up just using paper maps/set lists the whole weekend. Huge waste of paper and time.