[Announce] Travel Guide for N9 released
 

Hi,

Travel Guide app for Nokia N9, is now freely available in Nokia Store: http://store.ovi.com/content/357598

Travel Guide is an application that displays content based on device location. It displays wikipedia articles near you and answers the question what is this place and what interesting locations are nearby.

Enjoy.

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Unable to download due to Store screwing things up again :(
http://db.tt/BmbMnaa7

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Same for me... Sad, Nokia Store is getting worse day by day...

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From Store's website downloads works.

Because it's free, i can put it here?

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Sure, I placed it Store mainly to follow the download numbers. :cool:

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Really nice and usefull app. Thanks for that.

That being said, may I ask if there will be support for optional images being displayed?

And perhaps a search function, not based on GPS?

Edit: typo's.

Really nice. But most places are found if English is selected. When I switch to dutch some places are gone. I guess due to no written articles in dutch of those places? ^^

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My plan is to keep the App such that it only displays content based on the location, it's not intended to be a Wikipedia client. For the time being I'm not displaying the images, and I might keep it that way.

I don't know if I have much time to develop the App, but if I have I will most likely take it more towards and offline capabilities. So, the use case would be that at a hotel or some WiFi spot user could download the articles to the device before going to explore a city and if there is an interesting location user can check if there is an article on that location without a need of using data connection.

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That's most likely the case. Depending where you are, there might be more articles available in local language than in English, or abroad there might be very few articles available in your mother tongue. Also to find the article, the articles must be tagged with a coordinate, so if that information is missing then it's not displayed.

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Thanks. The reason for a search function would be to be able to do some trip planning in advance. That would also allow you to cache pages while still on your wifi at home. Either way, appreciated.

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I'll give it a thought. As said I don't think I'll have time in the near future to work on this, but if I get the offline functionality done some day, the I could take that as a next development item. But don't hold your breath... ;)

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Regarding the search functionality, would you search for a location, like "Munich" and expect to get a list of locations in Munich? Or were you thinking a search by location name, like "Technology Museum" (in Munich).

Personally I favour first over the second, some how I feel the generic search takes the App a bit different direction and also then you could query any Wikipedia article with it, which I don't like so much. But please give your thoughts, how you would use the App.

Thanks.

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The first use case, it would be for me. Just to illustrate why; I was at home yesterday, when I installed your app. It searched for pages based on GPS and I got to see entries I would never have even thought of looking them up. These things I pass by every day without ever noticing them.

So, to me, it would be really nice to plan a trip to Paris, one weekend, and be able to see what's available that I hadn't thought of just yet. If there is so much to see and read up on in the area where I live, I am certain it will be even better in places I know less well than my hometown.

And like I said, it would be an excellent opportunity to cache the search results as well, while still on your home network.

Thanks again!

Great app, tks!

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Tried to download from Nokia Store, but it wouldn't let me.

Otherwise thanks for the software. Nice that guys are still developing for the N9.

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Hi,

you can try to download the app from here as well: http://db.tt/VXWlbcoQ

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I was finally able to download and install this wonderful app from Nokia Store today!!!

Great app, thank you! :)

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Yes, now the installation worked from the Store.

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I contacted Nokia and they said their store upgrade broke N9 downloads. Now it's fixed and seems like people are able to download the App from store. If you like it, please give feedback in the store.

Thanks for your interest.