You can do it all via geolocation/geotagging, I believe there is an app/community/geo spot hunting game out there, ah yes http://geocaching.com
Darren Marshall http://doejo.com http://bowtruss.com On Jun 19, 2013, at 4:08 PM, Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: > For a guy who keeps posting about no job, no work, no future, no health care, > no nothing, seems like you could find some tutorials and start trying to > build an app to do this. I see high school kids coding up apps, some of them > fairly complex, and I doubt if they are any smarter than you are, given what > you have posted about your past endeavors. > > I have slowly been teaching myself the electronics and micro programming I > always wanted to do but never had time to do, it is not hard and there is a > wealth of info out there about it and a huge community of people who share > their knowledge and efforts. I have not looked into the phone stuff, but > lots of those folks are building links to Androids and Apple, so I am > guessing it is not wildly complex and there is probably a community of > developers too. > > You have a good idea, spend some time (which it seems you have a lot of to > fill) researching it, then have a go. You have nothing to lose (loose) and a > lot to gain. Gopher it, don't rely on someone else. > > --R > > > On 6/19/13 4:01 PM, Mountain Man wrote: >> Walking in the local forest preserve (FP), it occurred to me that it >> might be interesting and instructive to have connectivity in the FP >> and an application to lead a person to observe some of the things a FP >> docent/ranger might point out. Items such as certain trees or flowers >> or wildlife habitat or whatever - stuff that a guided tour would >> highlight. Perhaps connectivity in the FP along with a local 'ap' to >> lead us from one GPS location to the next might be interesting to >> develop? >> I don't do communist GPS, I don't do communist smartphone, but it >> might be something that a local developer could code? Drive or walk >> to the FP and device alerts that there is an 'ap' to lead you to >> places of interest in the FP, downloaded (free) 'ap' - I don't know >> what is capable - perhaps the braintrust here can suggest tech is not >> there yet? or that this would be an interesting coding project? >> Thanks. >> mao >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
