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Peak Identifier application for I-phone's

PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:58 pm
by lilbitmo
OK Techies, three years ago a friend showed me an app on his new I-phone that when the camera was on or the mapping software, cannot remember which, he could point his phone at the surrounding hills and it will name the peaks - had to be a known peak but it was fun to play with. I'm out of touch with that person (not responding to their phone :oops: ) so I'm asking if anyone knows the name of that application, I got a new I-phone for Christmas and turned it on this past week, now it's time to add some cool app's.
I looked all over the I-phone app page online but could not find it.
Any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance :D

PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:52 am
by asabat
For Droids I've installed an app called PeakAR. It shows some peaks out to about 50 miles. It uses the phone's camera screen and puts the peak labels on there. I haven't played with it in the field enough to see how it calibrates with the compass and GPS yet.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 12:23 pm
by Andy
I've not used any app like this but the idea sure piqued my interest. Here are a few I found on the App Store. Though not the best ratings...

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ar-mtn.-usa/id475989654?mt=8

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/peakfinder-usa-west/id387214656?mt=8

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/peaks/id332170121?mt=8

Please keep us posted if you end up trying any of these.