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Field Trip

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:16:17 +0000

Field Trip is your guide to the cool, hidden, and unique things in the world around you. Field Trip runs in the background on your phone. When you get close to something interesting, it pops up a card with details about the location. No click is required. If you have a headset or bluetooth connected, it can even read the info to you.

Field Trip can help you learn about everything from local history to the latest and best places to shop, eat, and have fun. You select the local feeds you like and the information pops up on your phone automatically, as you walk next to those places.

The hyperlocal history experts of Arcadia and Historvius will unveil local lore in places you never expected. Trend-setting publications like TimeOut, Thrillist, Food Network, Zagat, and Eater will point out the best places to eat and drink. Experts at Sunset, Cool Hunting, WeHeart, Inhabitat, and Remodelista will guide you to the latest unique stores and products. Atlas Obscura, Dezeen and Daily Secret help you uncover hidden gems no matter where you are. Songkick and Flavorpill guide you to local music.

What did you discover today? Enrich yourself with a Field trip during your commute. Live like a local when you travel to new places. Eat and shop off the beaten path. Or simply discover the obscure history about your neighborhood during your next walk to the park.

Get ready to see this world with new eyes!

NOTE: This app is optimized for smartphones, not tablets.

Highlights:

★ Discover thousands of interesting places/experiences that fall under the following categories: Architecture, Historic Places & Events, Lifestyle, Offers & Deals, Food Drinks & Fun, Movie Locations, Outdoor Art and Obscure Places of Interest around you.

★ Choose from three different modes to set frequency of Field Trip notifications. See “Field Trip” worthy places around you on a map, by tapping on cards in map view to pull up enthralling points of interest around you.

★ Go on a Field Trip while you drive. Field Trip can detect when you’re driving and automatically “talk” about interesting places and experience around you.

★ Capture the memory of a special place, by sharing a wondrous discovery through email and social networks such as Google+, Twitter and Facebook.

★ Wondering where the gem that you recently discovered is? Find your discovered field trip cards in the “recent’ section.

★ Field trip learns what you love. Thumbs up or down to tune the information discovery engine.

For more information about how to use Field Trip, visit our help center at http://support.google.com/fieldtrip

Follow us on:
www.facebook.com/FieldTripApp
www.google.com/+FieldTripApp
www.twitter.com/FieldTripApp

Recent changes:
V1.09:
- Go on a Field Trip Anywhere! Now available in 30+ languages and 80+ countries.
- Automatically translate cards that are not in your native language.
- New zoomed-out view of map that aggregates cards to make discovering sights and stories easier.

Google Earth

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:01:26 +0000

Fly around the planet with a swipe of your finger with Google Earth for Android. Explore distant lands or reacquaint yourself with your childhood home. Integrated Google Maps Street View allow you to explore the world at street level. Browse layers including roads, borders, places, photos and more. Visit the Earth Gallery to find exciting maps such as real-time earthquakes, planes in flight, hiking trails, city tours, and more.

Use the new “tour guide” to easily discover exciting new places to explore. With a quick swipe on the tab at the bottom of the screen, you can bring up a selection of virtual tours from around the globe.

With new 3D imagery, you can now fly through complete 3D recreations of select cities, including San Francisco, Boston, Rome, and others. With every building modeled in 3D, you truly get a sense of flying above the city. 3D imagery is available on select devices, including most tablets.

You can easily navigate with your fingers, using:
* A one finger swipe to move the globe
* A two-finger pinch and rotate to zoom in and out and rotate your viewpoint
* Two-fingers swiped together to tilt your view
* A one-finger double-tap to zoom in
* A two-finger double-tap to zoom out

Recent changes:
New in 7.1.1
* Google Maps Street View: With Street View, you can explore the world at street level.
* Improved directions/search: Updated directions let you can visualize transit, walk, bike and drive directions in 3D while update search result list will let you browse search results quickly.
* Improved interface: Easily browse and enable different layers through use of new left hand panel

Skyscanner - All Flights!

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:19:52 +0000

www.skyscanner.net

Flight search from Skyscanner

All flights, everywhere!

Need a cheap flight, fast? Compare over 1000 budget and scheduled airlines and more than 1,000,000 routes around the world in seconds with the free Skyscanner Android app; saves money, saves time. Buy air tickets direct from airlines or travel agents and get the best deals. It’s simple, independent and finds the lowest fares with a few quick taps, wherever you want to fly.

Why Download the Skyscanner Android app?

• Skyscanner is the world’s best flight site
• Search every flight anywhere in the world
• Search over 1000 airlines and travel agents
• Find ALL your flight options in one easy app
• Busy? Email flight details to yourself for later
• Joint trip? Share your flight details with friends, family or colleagues with one tap
• Skyscanner is 100% independent and shows ALL airlines including low cost carriers and scheduled airlines
• Available in 28 languages
• It’s FREE!

What the press say about Skyscanner:

“Flexible, fair and fearsomely indispensable.” – The Guardian

“Lightning-fast; it’s easy to use, and has some brilliant gizmos.” – The Sunday Times

“Superb search choices [and a] high number of fast results. A great, flexible site." – Which?

“If you're really looking for the lowest airfares, the Skyscanner system is by far the most useful.” – USA Today

Download the Skyscanner app now for free!

Recent changes:
- Added a new currency Omani rial (OMR)
- Various bug fixes

Waze social GPS maps & traffic

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:46:11 +0000

Waze is a fun, community-based mapping, traffic & navigation app, 40 million strong. Join forces with other drivers nearby to outsmart traffic, save time & gas money, and improve everyone's daily commute.

With community-generated maps and real-time traffic, you'll always get the best route to your destination. By simply driving around with Waze open, you're already contributing tons of real-time traffic & road info to your local driving community. You can also actively report accidents, hazards, police and other events you see on the road, and get road alerts coming up on your route too. Find the cheapest gas station along your route with community-shared fuel prices.

Waze makes it fun and simple to meet up and coordinate with friends on the road. Connect to Facebook to see friends also headed to your destination. Keep anyone updated about your drive! Send a link to a live map showing your real-time drive and ETA.

It's all about contributing to, and benefiting from, the 'common good' out there on the road, so hop on board, and get involved in your local driving community today!

✓ Live routing based on community-generated, real-time traffic and road info
✓ Community-contributed road alerts including accidents, hazards, police traps, road closures and more.
✓ Complete voice-guided navigation.
✓ Automatic re-routing as conditions on the road change.
✓ Learns your frequent destinations, commuting hours and preferred routes.
✓ Find the cheapest gas station on your route.
✓ See Facebook friends also driving to your destination.
✓ Notify someone you're on your way by sending a live ETA and a link showing you as you drive
✓ Earn points and move up the ranks in your community as you contribute road info.
✓ Live maps, constantly edited and updated by Waze community map editors.

Drive safe!

Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Waze will automatically shut down if you run it in the background and haven't driven for a while.

Recent changes:
✓ Report road closures in real time. Waze will close off the road and route others around it
✓ Report pins tilted on map to better indicate direction of event
✓ Reduced map clutter by showing only relevant road names
✓ New moods!
✓ New inbox with multiple message selection
✓ Update gas prices popup: When in gas station users prompted to update price (Europe only)
✓ Optimized performance and multiple bug fixes

TripAdvisor Hotels Flights

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:33:32 +0000

Millions of traveler reviews, photos, maps from TripAdvisor. Plan and have your perfect trip. With over 100 million reviews and opinions by travelers, TripAdvisor makes it easy to find the lowest airfare, best hotels, great restaurants, and fun things to do, wherever you go. And booking options for hotels, restaurants and flights are just a tap away.

The TripAdvisor mobile app is free and easy to use.
• Browse millions of reviews, opinions, videos and candid photos by travelers
• Find the best hotel for you, including Travelers' Choice award winners
• Explore restaurants by food type, price range, and rating
• Discover cool things to do in any destination
• Compare airfares and find great deals
• Use Near Me Now to discover options near you or any address you enter
• Get answers to your specific travel questions in the forums
• Add your own reviews, videos and photos
• Add a hotel, restaurant or attraction not yet listed on TripAdvisor

Recent changes:
The updated TripAdvisor mobile app, more ways to have the best trip ever!
• Browse bigger, more inspiring photos
• View videos
• Add a new place to review
• Switch currency in settings
• New beautiful design

GPS Navigation & Maps - light

Thu, 16 May 2013 07:12:31 +0000

*** The global success for iPhone & iPad (more than 3.5 million users: GPS Navigation 2) now finally available for Android ***

No marketing gloss now, just facts.
Two apps in one:
Navigation with voice prompts (turn-by-turn) for trial
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Worldwide Travel Map (OSM).
skobbler NGx cutting-edge map technology.
Various search functions.
Entirely in German.
Upgrades available to enable offline use.
This is what you get with GPS Navigation & Maps - light.

So - now for the gloss :-)

FULL-FLEDGED NAVIGATION FOR VEHICLES AND PEDESTRIANS
* Gives you full-fledged turn-by-turn navigation. Functionality such as speed warnings, street sign displays, 3D-view (isometric) and much more is of course included. Entirely online or offline (see below).

ONE WORLDWIDE MAP RATHER THAN A WHOLE LOAD OF SMALL MAPS
* With GPS Navigation & Maps you need worry no more about orientation. No need for paper maps. No matter where you are or where the journey takes you, OpenStreetMap is available to you everywhere.

And you can choose where you want to use it online and where offline. Online, the entire map is continuously available. One entire country is included in the package for offline use. You can enhance this within the app with almost 1000 additions (cities, countries, continents). Download each area (ideally in a WLAN) so you always have it with you, even without internet connection, so you can use it to its full extent. Also included are all cities and their street maps. The map is always seamless. You never need to switch between several maps.

AFTER 14 DAYS YOU MAKE YOUR CHOICE
Try out Navigation for 14 days. Then you have a choice:
1) Either upgrade to the very reasonably-priced full version (available here in the store) to enable not only unlimited use of Navigation but also to make this and all other functions available offline.
2) Or continue with unlimited online use purely as a map app without Navigation.

FEATURES
* Full-fledged Navigation with voice prompts (turn-by-turn) for 14 days
* Complete interactive OpenStreetMap (unlimited)
* One single map with global coverage
* Ongoing free map updates
* High-performance map technology (NGx)
* Route planner (vehicle, pedestrian)
* Various map styles (e.g. night, outdoor)
* Various search functions
* IdeaLog for feedback to developers
* Convenient favorites lists
* Optional synchronization of favorites using the web portal maps.skobbler.com

So GPS Navigation & Maps (light) is the perfect companion when you are on the move.
Wherever you are. Maps as you need and want them. To do this the app uses the maps of the superb OpenStreetMap (http://openstreetmap.org).

Experience for yourself what more than one million mapping enthusiasts worldwide have made possible with OpenStreetMap and have the skobbler maps quality (http://maps.skobbler.com) at your fingertips at any time.

Scout GPS Navigation & Traffic

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:16:10 +0000

Join the community of millions of drivers using award-winning Scout, your personalized maps and GPS navigation travel application for Android. Whether you’ve got a natural knack for latitude and longitude orientation or have no sense of direction, Scout will help travel like a boss. Scout’s maps and discovery features get you what you need with instant speed, from voice-guided directions and traffic to nearby restaurants, cheap gas, and more!

✔ My Dashboard – Think of this home screen as your go-to, daily toolbar where you can view a map of your current location, commute times to your work or home address based on traffic and current weather, and find any nearby place like restaurants, gas, coffee, and ATMs or any recent destination with just a tap or simple voice command.
✔ Voice Turn-by-Turn Directions – Pick your route and get turn-by-turn directions on the latest maps with award-winning Telenav® GPS navigation with voice guidance. Control your route settings with just a tap and avoid tolls or highways.
✔ My Traffic – View real-time traffic flows and ETAs to your destination. See traffic flows on a map so you can take the guesswork out of knowing where you’ll run into congestion.
✔OnMyWay®: Share your ETA to let others know when you’ll arrive at your destination.
✔ Nearby Places – Use one-tap search and discovery to quickly view coffee, restaurants and the cheapest gas stations nearby, with Yelp and TripAdvisor community reviews. Whether it’s a familiar community in your hometown or travel to a new destination, get the detail on the best place to grab a bite or store to shop at while you’re in transit.
✔ Web Sync – Release your inner explorer and discover things to do on www.scout.me, including live music, family fun, activities for the outdoor enthusiast and cool local events in the community. Log in to sync your favorites between the site and the Scout application.
✔ My Places – Save every recent favorite discovery and access it on the Scout Android application or online at scout.me
✔ Voice Commands – Speak, don’t type, to view a map or directions to a street address or saved place and navigate there hands free while keeping your eyes on the road to avoid accidents, hazards and being stopped by the police.
✔ Fresh Maps – Say goodbye to your map quest – your search for mapping apps ends here; Scout’s maps are always updated and provide you with both 2-D and 3-D view options during navigation.
✔ Car Connect – Stop fumbling between your phone, radio, and headset, and instead use Bluetooth® to connect to Scout in your car with Ford SYNC® AppLink™. View turn-by-turn directions on your car’s infotainment system and hear the voice guidance over the car speakers (in-app purchase required for Car Connect).

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What’s the word on Scout?

From our users on Google Play:

“Great app!
I like this app better than Google's. Easier to see when I'm driving, and links to Yelp reviews for nearby businesses. Highly recommended.”

“Really good.
Never thought I'd stop using Google maps.”

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In the press:

“Scout is as easy on the eyes as it is easy to use.” -Mashable

“Scout by Telenav has the best interface…and is also the easiest to use by a long shot.” - Allyson Kazmucha, iMore (article)

"Wow - this is awesome! Scout addresses exactly the issues I have while navigating around my new California hometown." - Kyle Thibaut, Aol Autos | TRANSLOGIC

Awards:
2012 Best of CES Finalist
2012 CTIA Emerging Technology Award Winner
2012 IAVA Communicator Award of Excellence
2012 Telematics Update Best Navigation Product
2012 Appy Award Finalist

Recent changes:
What's in this version:

• A new look—user interface that’s even more user-friendly!
• Share your ETA: Let others know when you’ll arrive with one tap.
• Save and sync: Log in to sync faves between the app and www.scout.me website.
• Always There navigation: Offline maps keep you navigating with voice guidance even if you lose cell phone coverage (with in-app Scout Plus upgrade).
• Improved performance to reduce battery usage.

GasBuddy - Find Cheap Gas

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:45:43 +0000

Find Cheap Gas Prices

Gas prices can vary by up to 20 cents per gallon or more. GasBuddy helps you find the cheapest gas prices with one tap.

Submitting gas prices helps everyone save money on gas.

FEATURES:
- Find cheapest gas near you
- Find cheapest gas by city/zip/postal code
- Report gas prices to help other people find cheap gas
- Chance of winning $250 gas every week
- Earn points for reporting gas prices
- Earn awards for posting gas prices
- Save money every time you fill up at the cheapest stations

USER REVIEWS:
- "This app saves me so much it's ridiculous."
- "This app is a no brainer! The accuracy is astounding and WILL save you money. Trust me, you want this app!"
- "I love this app! It helped me find a gas station just a mile from my house that I never knew existed. This app is easy to use and saves you money."

GasBuddy uses gas price information provided by our users to bring drivers together to support the common goal of saving money on gas.

Gas prices only for USA and Canada

Recent changes:
V2.23

Good news! We are getting ready to send push notifications when prices are rising in your area. We will be launching this system in the Great Lakes region first. We hope to roll this system out across North American in the future. You may also notice new permissions are required for our app. These permissions are required by Google to send push notifications to your device.

Yelp

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:04:19 +0000

Looking for a burrito joint open now? An Irish pub nearby? A gas station you can drive to before your tank hits empty? Yelp for Android is here to help. Use us to search for places to eat, shop, drink, relax and play then read reviews from an active community of locals in the know.

FEATURES:
★ Search for businesses near you
★ Tap quick links to find nearby bars, restaurants, cafes and more
★ Narrow your searches by 'hood, distance, price, and what's open now
★ Browse reviews to read what's great (and not so great) in your city
★ Find great Deals offered by your favorite local businesses
★ Add Quick Tips, photos, and draft reviews for your favorite businesses
★ Check-in and share on Facebook and Twitter
★ Make reservations on OpenTable without leaving the Yelp app
★ Look up addresses and phone numbers for thousands of businesses, then call or map them from your phone
★ Yelp does augmented reality with Monocle. Overlay business information onto the world around you.

Recent changes:
☆ We're launching a brand new Android business page. We tore the old page down to the studs and built it back up with an eye on aesthetics and efficiency. We think you’ll find browsing business details, photos, review highlights, reviews, and tips far more enjoyable.
☆ We made adding business photos a lot more elegant. Now it's a lot easier to add multiple photos as well as review all the previous photos you've uploaded for a business.

MapFactor: GPS Navigation

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:16:48 +0000

MapFactor Navigator is a free turn-by-turn GPS navigation app for Android phones and tablets using OpenStreetMaps data. Maps are installed on the SD card so there is no need for an Internet connection when traveling. Map and app updates are FREE every month.

To contact us or make your views heard please use forum.mapfactor.com as Google Play does not allow us to answer your comments or queries.

MapFactor also makes the popular NavigatorFREE for PC, Pocket PC and WinCE.

OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. For more information see www.openstreetmap.org

Voice guidance
* intuitive voice navigation in different languages
* door to door route planning
* cross-border routing without the need to switch between countries or to a less detailed map
* overview of the upcoming manoeuvre and distance shown on the screen

GPS satellite navigation
* 2D/3D mode allows realistic visual map display
* day/night modes switch colour schemes for day or night time driving
* map rotates in driving direction, or north up

Searching
* find nearest points of interest
* postcodes
* full GB postcodes (1.8 million)

Speed cameras
* hear audible warnings as you approach speed cameras

Features
* add your own favourite locations and routes
* routing modes for car, pedestrian, truck
* route avoidance - block off certain road from your route

------------ OpenStreetMap data ------------

= Europe

Albania
Andorra
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia And Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Faroe Islands
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Gibraltar
Greece
Guernsey
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Isle Of Man
Italy
Jan Mayen
Jersey
Kosovo
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malta
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russian Federation
San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United Kingdom Postcode - Ordnance Survey
Vatican City

= America

Antigua And Barbuda
Argentina
Aruba
Barbados
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
British Virgin Islands
Canada
Caribbean Netherlands
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Crozet Islands
Cuba
Curacao
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
French Guiana
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Martinique
Mexico
Montserrat
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Puerto Rico
Saint Kitts And Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
St Pierre And Miquelon
Suriname
The Bahamas
Turks And Caicos Islands
Trinidad And Tobago
Uruguay
United States of America
Virgin Islands
Venezuela
Wallis And Futuna

= Asia

Afghanistan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brunei
Cambodia
Democratic Republic Of Timor Leste
Gaza Strip
China
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Lebanon
Malaysia
Maldives
Mongolia
Nepal
North Korea
Oman
Pakistan
Palestine
Qatar
Philippines
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Thailand
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Union Of Myanmar
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Yemen

= Australia

Australia
Federated States Of Micronesia
Fiji
Guam
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Nauru
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Papua New Guinea

= Africa

Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo
Democratic Republic Of The Congo
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea Bissau
Guinea
Ivory Coast
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Rwanda
Sao Tome And Principe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
Sudan
Swaziland
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
United Republic Of Tanzania
Western Sahara
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Recent changes:
1st birthday release 1.0.0
- application name changed from "MapFactor Navigator (beta)"
- bugfixes (speedcam, NMEA line ends, odometer, save edited links, edit params ...)

0.14.30
contact integration
expanded search
detours from your journey to avoid traffic jams
fix for white screen crash
fix for restarting engines crash after download
search in nearby streets even for ETownCentre without streets
downloader better resuming
better house number textplacing
added pt localization (Brazilian)
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