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Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman Started conversation Jul 31, 2010
The 'Field Companion'.
Every man and his dog has a smartphone. You can jot notes, take photos, record a video or audio track, even pinpoint your location with GPS.
So how about a h2g2 Field Companion applications which allows you to do proper field research? You set up a new project and have several large friendly buttons which allow you to assemble a narrative as you visit a place, rather like a portable scrapbook. Then, when you get home, you dump it all onto a PC and write it up. It could provide a map of the place using Google Maps, say, and map markers showing where each fragment was recorded.
I have no intention of getting an iPhone and even less of writing an app for one, but when Windows Phone 7 comes out I think it will be a lot easier to do somehting like this.
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