Open Plaques iPhone App
Discover historic landmarks, notable events and famous people near you. The Open Plaques iPhone app will allow you to locate all the commemorative plaques currently available on the openplaques.org website within 50kms of your current location and to view the inscriptions and images of those plaques.
Open Plaques is a companion app to the openplaques.org website. Open Plaques is a service that aims to map and provide data about all the commemorative plaques and stone engravings marking moments in history that can be found across the UK and worldwide.
The Open Plaques iPhone App is now available for download for Free in the iTunes App store. The openplaques.org project is an Open Source project dedicated to documenting the locations of and data about all the plaques and inscriptions in the UK and worldwide.
The Open Plaques iPhone app is also open source and is hosted on github. If you have any problems with the app you can raise an issue at http://github.com/radicalrobot/Open-Plaques-iPhone-App/issues.
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[...] special mention goes to Emily Toop who had already built the Open Plaques iPhone app from our data, and which is now in the App Store! In the next few months we’re planning to get [...]
[...] 09:50 – 10:05 – Frankie Roberto, ‘The Story So Far’ 10:05 – 10:20 – Ian Ozsvald, ‘The OCR Challenge’ 10:20 – 10:35 – Richard Vahrman, ‘Games based on Open Plaques data’ 10:35 – 10:50 – Emily Toop, ‘Open Plaques the iPhone app’ [...]