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FlyoverCountry

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Track your flight with GPS - discover the world below with offline maps and POI.

**GPS functionality is only possible from the window seat and GPS reception quality varies by device/conditions**

Learn about the world along the path of your flight, hike, or road trip with GPS tracking. Offline geologic maps and interactive points of interest reveal the locations of fossils and georeferenced Wikipedia articles visible from your airplane window seat, road trip, or hiking trail vista.

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Flyover Country is a National Science Foundation funded offline mobile app for geoscience outreach and data discovery. The app exposes interactive geologic maps from Macrostrat.org, fossil localities from Neotomadb.org and Paleobiodb.org, Wikipedia articles, offline base maps, and the user’s current GPS determined location, altitude, speed, and heading. The app analyzes a given flight path and caches relevant map data and points of interest (POI), and displays these data during the flight, without in flight wifi. By downloading only the data relevant to a particular flightpath, cache sizes remain reasonable, allowing for a robust experience without an internet connection. 

Flyover Country is not limited to the window seat of airplanes. It is also ideal for road trips, hiking, and other outdoor activities such as field trips and geologic field work.

How to use FC:

-Tap two or more points on the map to specify your path, then click 'Load path' in the top right corner to view the data associated with the path. Select 'Save for offline' to store the data and associated articles on your device for offline use. Access saved paths from the 'Saved' menu. 

-Toggle 'GPS' to the on position in the side menu (accessed by pressing the menu button, top left). This will enable position tracking, speed, heading, and altitude information to be accessed from the map view.

-You may also select your 'Trip mode' from the side menu. the 'plane' provides a wide strip of data while 'car/foot' provides a narrower but more detailed geologic map with detailed unit descriptions and metadata.

Known issues and future features: 

-Fossil silhouette icons are not yet stored offline. 

-Wiki article images are not yet stored offline

-Plot breadcrumbs of flight path trajectory during flight

-More data! If you have a data source suggestion email Shane at Loeff081@d.umn.edu

Flyover Country - trip map

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