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Arapiles Selected Climbs comes to iPhone 6-Oct-2011 At 9:24:34 AM Cam McKenzie

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On 6/10/2011 davidn wrote:
>I don't have an iPhone, so excuse if I ask anything a dyed-in-the-wool
>applehead would know...
>
>Is there connectivity back to a central repository of information for
>this kind of app? I.e. you tear a bolt off a climb or manage to fix some
>gear - can this be communicated back to a central server and apps updated
>automagically through a subscription?

The app is completely self contained. All the information (images, climb details) etc. are stored on the phone itself, rather than downloaded from a repository. So, no, if you rip off a hold, or a pull out a bolt, or a climb falls down, you can shoot us an email and we'll update the app and then a new version will be pushed out to the app store.

In a perfect world this data would just get synched up to the app over the internet, but this complicates matters significantly and requires and infrastructure of hardware that we don't have (and can't afford).

>
>Will there be/is there an aim to achieve portability to non-proprietary
>software, i.e. that any non-iPhone could use? (is that possible or would
>you have to write a different app for each brand of phone?)

Unfortunately this is not an option, each phone runs a different operating system which has its own way of doing stuff. The next logical step would be to implement an Android version of the app given that it is the only serious competition to the iPhone. This does require a complete rewrite essentially though. If the app actually sells a few copies and there's a demand for an Android version we'd consider doing one.

>
>And as a more general question to the ether, is there an intention in
>the wide climbingverse to integrate ACA/thecrag/thesarvo/27crags/mountainproject/whatever
>with these kinds of apps? I've often opined that it would be wonderful
>if we saw more integrated solutions to climbing guides in the future, but
>things often seem to be heading the opposite direction - more guides, more
>online data repositories, and a lack of cross-linkage.

No idea, we deliberately avoided climb logging for the initial release and focussed on just making a guide. Given that all of the websites you've mentioned contain user generated content it would be very difficult to map climbs in our app to climbs on those web sites for tracking purposes. It would be nice though.

>
>By the way, is there a button for 'I'm sketching, what piece of gear do
>I need to place right at this spot in the climb'??

I'm sure it will be in version 1.1

>
>Those questions aside, it looks very good. :)

cheers