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WorldView+
## Rewind 2011 Germany: Best iPad travel app ##
Watch webcams worldwide with an elegant, friendly, and intuitive user interface.
There are thousands of webcams with images of pictures of places, streets, landscapes, and much more. These webcams provide impressive views of the world.
WorldView+ brings the world into your pocket! Watch over 16,000 webcams from all over the world in fullscreen on your iPhone or iPod touch when you're connected to the Internet. All webcams listed in http://webcams.travel/ are available to view. Search for a specific place, for nearby webcams, or even take a look at popular webcams from around the world.
WorldView+ supports iPad, iPhone and iPod touch and requires at least iOS 4
Press Quotes:
"Savour live, or near-live, images from 10,000 webcams around the world on your phone. Want to check the weather in Covent Garden, or indeed see the pyramids? WorldView opens your eyes." - The Times Online
"It's an ideal toy for tourists wishing to get a sense of the weather at their destinations, or for armchair travelers stuck in their work cubicles. You can stare at downtown Moscow or Newport Beach in California. WorldView isn't necessary for business travelers, but it's a fun time-waster." - USA Today Online
Feature overview:
- Full iPad support
- Manage unlimited webcams using bookmarks
- Add your own webcam addresses to your bookmarks (URLs pointing to images or Motion-JPEG only)
- Zoom webcam images in fullscreen
- View the webcam image as soon as it is updated by the webcam for more than 7000 webcams. Some webcams update every second, others update every minute, etc. (webcams.travel updates the images depending on popularity in different timeframes)
- Let WorldView+ update the webcam images automatically or refresh them manually
- Watch live video streams for more than 900 webcams
- Search for webcams using a map
- Simply browse the map to get previews of webcams on the visible map area. Drop a pin by holding a second on a place anywhere on the map to search that location for webcams in a range of 130 miles.
- Get search suggestions for your search text or search for your exact entered text
- Get a random list of webcams, live webcams, or video webcams, just shake the device to reload the list!
- Watch webcams newly added, recently viewed, or being popular on webcams.travel
- View an daytime image of a webcam
- View a time-lapse video of some selected webcams (currently 50, growing)
- View weather and time information for webcams
- Read Wikipedia articles that are located near a webcam's location and open them in Articles application (if installed)
- View the position of each webcam on a map from within WorldView+ or view it in the Maps application
- View additional information for each webcam on the webcams.travel website without leaving the application. Or open Safari to view the website of the webcam itself
- Promote a webcam to your friends via Twitter, Facebook or email
- Save the current image to your Camera Roll
- Fast app switching support
- Retina support
- Automatic backup for your bookmarks so you won't lose them e.g. after reinstalling
- Bookmarks Backup in the background
- Share bookmarks via email
WorldView+ provides all these functionalities in an intuitive and easy to use interface. If you would like to get a first impression of the app, please download the free edition of WorldView.
If you are unable find your webcam, just add it to http://webcams.travel/ website for free and then it will also appear in WorldView+! You can also add your own webcam URL addresses to the WorldView+ bookmarks!
If there are any questions or problems you are experiencing, please head over to our support forum at http://support.worldviewmobileapp.com/. This will allow us to help sort out any issues you may be experiencing. Thanks and happy WorldViewing!
What's new
- Manual cams can now also be assigned a position on a map, allowing to show weather, map position and wikipedia entries
- Show webcam position in a popover first, option to show fullscreen (iPad)
- Show email sheets with more space (iPad)
- Buttons opening a popover will close it now if already open (iPad)
- Fixed fullscreen rotation issues
- Fixed search UI always showing geo coordinates when searching for a place
- Fixed back button showing no text in details page when opening from search UI
- Fixed some more UI problems, especially in the search UI
- Fixed a problem when manual cam URLs were called too often
- Fixed a problem that changes for manual webcams weren't saved properly once the app exited
- Fixed buttons in bookmark edit mode appearing not correctly (iPad)
- Fixed a crash when scrolling in bookmark webcams in fullscreen
- Fixed a problem when the device lost internet connection which could lead to a crash
- Fixed a crash caused by failing on adding a bookmark
- Fixed various other crashes
- Various other fixes
- Updated chinese translations
Version 3.1.1
- Browsing in fullscreen now loads more webcams when reaching the end of the current list (depends on the list)
- Slightly modified iPad bookmarks UI
- Multiple crashes fixed
- Multiple minor bugs fixed
Version 3.1.0
- Added iOS 5 native Twitter support
- Image updates are now animated
- Added resetting Facebook account to settings
- Improved network usage
- Improved crash reporting
- Multiple crashes fixed
- Multiple iOS 5 UI bugs fixed
- Multiple minor bugs fixed
Version 3.0.1
- When searching for webcams in a specific country, use a better search algorithm
- Increased search range when searching for geo places to 200km/130miles
- Fixed edit button position in fullscreen for manual cams in non english languages
- Fixed Search map UI problems
- Fixed iOS 4.0 & 4.1 compatibility problems
- Fixed crashes when managing manual webcams
- Fixed navigation problems on iPhone when switching to fullscreen and back from bookmarks webcam detail view
- Various minor UI improvements
- Various minor bugs fixed
Version 3.0
- Full iPad support (Universal App)
- Completely revamped search interface: See the seach results on a map. Or simply browse the map to get previews of webcams on the visible map area. Drop a pin by holding a second on a place anywhere on the map to search that location for webcams in a range of 60 miles.
- Added Facebook sharing
- Improved Twitter sharing
- Lots of minor UI changes
- Lots of minor bug fixes
- Requires iOS 4.0 or later
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- Last changed:
- Nov 10, 2011
- Category:
- Travel
- Developer:
- Andreas Linde
- Version:
- 3.1.2
- Average Rating:
- 4.50 (24)
- Size:
- 3.6 MB
