AroundMe Wiki

This app is an ***augmented reality world explorer***. Hold your iPhone transversely and let the camera take a look at your surrounding. Turn yourself and you can discover relevant buildings, mountains, and other points of interests (linked to Wikipedia articles) around 6 miles which are indicated by red markers. The yellow buttons are their labels and can be clicked. When you click at them, a window appears, where you can read Wikipedia articles about the current point of interest. A map function shows you the exact location.

This program depends on the iPhoneGS build in compass- and GPS-Signals. You virtually can see what there is behind a wall or a building.

This app is preferably an outdoor-application. You need a proper compass-data, a good GPS-signal and a fast connectivity.

***Features
- Camera image overlaying markers for points of interests from Wikipedia
- Labels (yellow) are clickable.
- Markers (red) become bigger, when the points of interests are nearby
- Altitudes of points of interests are considered
- GPS altitude correction is considered


***Please consider
The reception of GPS signals is a bit vulnerable to failures in massive buildings, in cars, trains on board of ships or aircrafts. Near cars, boats, heaters, and other bigger iron objects, also the compass signal from the iPhone can be interfered. Please avoid buildings and metal objects within a radius of a few yards. This program can only be as good as the signal from GPS and the build-in magnetic compass In case of minor compass deviations, you can adjust the bearing with the slider at the bottom on the right side.

***Older iPhones or iPodTouch
For older iphones (first generation and iPhoneG) without a compass, you can use the slider at the right bottom to directly setting the direction of looking.

***Big city Many points of interests
If youve got too many points of interest, try to reduce them by getting down the slider on the left side where you can vary the radius of vision from 6 miles (default) to 0.

***Car mode
If you use the program in a moving vehicle, the heading information will be taken from GPS instead of the compass. The threshold to detect movement is a velocity of 3m/sec. In case of that, you should hold the device into direction of driving. For instance, fix your iPhone at your cars rearview mirror.