Nature trail mobile app

[Declan]

Hi folks.  I posted this on the FB group just now.  Not sure how best to reach the WE community these days.

What do you think of a wiki-based mobile app for nature
trails?  An educator could establish a trail using a mobile
phone/camera/GPS.  Others could follow the trail and the content would
pop up when you approached a location.....with a photo to overlay on the
 landscape (like PokemanGo but with reality....augmenting reality). 
Content would live on Wikieducator and be pulled up and down to the
mobile app.

The technology could be applied to any sort of trail.....from pub crawl to historical trails to geocaching.

[Luis Miguel Morillas]

Hi, Declan

It's a cool and a very interesting and collaborative idea. We have got
a wiki where teachers can upload resources and experiences and we
geolocalize them and show in a map[1]. But an app using tracks is very
interesting.


[1] https://innovacion.educa.aragon.es

Saludos,

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[hollisTrinidad and Tobago]

Has this app been created yet?

What software to adapt here?

Thanks.Sounds real interesting.

Hollis Sankar

Trinidad and Tobago

[Kavita Sinha]

I like this initiative.
Do ask me if you need help.

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I like this initiative.
Do ask me if you need help.

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[Declan]

That's fun Luis

I clicked on the purple circle....children planting in car tyres.  Looked like a great hands-on opportunity.

I started playing with some sites on WE trying to figure out what exactly to put on the wiki.  I learned from the Macroinvertebrate app that the images need to be small so as not to fill the phone memory.  So videos would not be good....unless there's phone service to link out to youtube.  This one would not use reusable templates like the insect templates....but would need a consistent format to talk with the app software.  I laid out the idea here: http://wikieducator.org/Trail with an example trail content here with borrowed images: 
http://wikieducator.org/Trail/example It's a little ugly.  I need to figure out how to break it into blocks lined up one on top of the other.  And it needs to be as simple as possible.

[Declan]

Not yet.  Just cooking up the basic idea at this point.  But, I have managed to pull something like this together before with help from Louis and from some computer science students

[Declan]

Thank you!

[Rendi Hernawan]

well i think that is briliant, so, we can share everything there.

[David Leeming]

Good idea,

 

Relates to community mapping,

 

http://web.uvic.ca/~cburnett/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Geog-391-Mobile-Apps.pdf

 

In the locations i would be interested in, for instance a community mapping of WASH resources in Pacific Islands, we’d need to have offline maps preloaded (and the trail objects database) or some way to account for that....

 

Just looked for opengreenmap.org but it seems to have a problem... would be interested in alternatives

 

best

 

David

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