Where Is My ...???

[gerbyte]

Where Is My ...??? v1.0

*Sick of spotting that shop during a day trip that sold that lovely hat, but could not find it again on your way back to the coach?
*Annoyed by not knowing where you pitched your tent at a music festival as you try to return to it in the dark (you are in the right field, right?)
*Embarrassed by walking up and down those same lanes in that packed carpark after work as you look for your car, making you look and feel like a car thief?

Well, all that can now be avoided by using Gerbyte's new "Where Is My ...???" Android phone app!
Simply press the button and your current location will be recorded. When you want to return to that spot, look at your Android's screen. Hey presto! The arrow is pointing directly towards where you pressed the button! It will even tell you how close you are (roughly, in meters) to your stored location as well as letting you know if you are at the right height level or not! Perfect for those multi-storey carparks!

NOTE:
Extra care must be taken when following the direction of the arrow as a multitude of different obstacles, such as wall, cars, tents, ravines etc. may be blocking your path. I won't be held responsible for you walking into a canal from following the arrow (like those people who drive into rivers because their satnav told them to).

Download and try out this app here.

Thanks guys.

All comments welcome.

Gerb.

 

[Rukbat]

A choice of meters or feet would make it easier for those of us who live in backwards countries, like the US. (Most of us can convert meters to approximate feet in our heads, but we prefer seeing the actual distance in feet, which would be trivial for the app to do if the setting was feet, not meters).

 

[gerbyte]

Thanks Rukbat.

I was wondering about that. As the Distance is not really and exact representation of the distance (but an excellent guess due to the algorithms used to work this out), I didn't put the "m" after the value to denote metres. It is metres though, I call it that, but it is likely to be wrong. It is a GPS app after all and GPS on phones really can't get complete precision but close.
In due course I will be adding a settings screen that will allow a choice between feet and metres as well as whether to force it to only use GPS, network location (which I personally hate as it is too far out) or both.
I was also going to make a paid version without adverts that will allow for more than one location to be stored, but I don't know if that would be feasible or not.

Thanks for your comments!