IPhone dive guide app
What features would you like to see in a dive guide app for the iPhone? Is there anything you would consider essential? Or a waste of space? What features do you think would help make a slick design?
I am in the midst of writing and designing a series of apps for the iPhone and would appreciate some input from the diving community as a whole. The apps will be offline site guides for a variety of different locations and will include general information about the area, specific information about dive sites, galleries, topside attractions and information about seasons etc. I am also debating whether to include information about operators, but to be honest I would rather just focus on the sites themselves – concentrate on getting the facts right and let the user work out where they want to stay…
So, what sort of features would you like to see in an app? Photo tips? Searches for wreck, reef or muck sites? Links to operators or dive clubs? Let me know what you think! I’ll be posting about the whole process so please feel free to jump in with any suggestions.
GPS functionality
3D maps – I’m on the case with that one
pictures / video clips?
open-source, comment-based, updates from the community
etc …..
Chris – Thanks for the comment. Been bouncing ideas off developers the last two weeks, really wish I had studied XML and C++ at school rather than Biology! Hopefully going ahead with an app soon but need to refine some ideas first…
Sounds like a fab app! Reckon a few mentions of some tour ops wouldn’t go amiss!
A lot of very familiar features there mate. Best of luck with it.