Ephemera: iPad App

My project partner Stacy Bond (that’s Bond, Stacy Bond) and I built and presented our iPad app at Hack/Hackers Unite this weekend. Our project? “Ephemera” an overlay of the map of SF with local trivia/history.

The app locates you, and shows all of the annotations for local treasures around you. You can also click over to look at the treasures, instead of clicking on each ephemeron.* Using MapKit framework. We load it up with all of the trivia for SF (currently). Future developments may include a time-slider to view a location over time. Code is available at: http://code.google.com/p/secretcity/

Historical sources for the ephemera: SF Historical Society.

* Points for knowing the singular of ephemera!!

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  • Melanie Archer
    Oooh, ooh--can't wait to build the Oakland version! What also might be kinda cool would be to adapt the interface to deliver something like the I-5 audio supplement (http://www.invisible5.org/).
  • Hey great idea. I'll talk to Stacy, she's an audio engineer & overall sound Gal Friday. I'm excited to bring in video etc. into these, as well.
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