Esplorio

@gillianim Thanks so much! Since we were last hunted, we’ve been in constant touch with our users to learn how to best improve the app and have built a tonne of new features in Esplorio 2.0, making sure it’s the best way to help people record and share their travels 😀 Of all the new features, the two that things we’re most excited about are: - My Places: A way for users to browse/search all the places they’ve visited in the past. - Arc Detection: We’ve built a unique new system that has the highest quality GPS tracking and lowest battery usage of any other app of its kind. http://giphy.com/gifs/tony-stark... On top of that, we’ve made changes throughout the app to make your content stand out, plus new views like a 3D globe view of your trip, and tonnes of changes to make the experience of using Esplorio seamless.

@essasaulat cool, congrats on this new release guys!

@loudijk Thanks Lex :D :D

Hi @jonbstrong, absolutely. Esplorio will work offline without a data connection for weeks at a time. We keep your data stored offline and then sort it out when you get access to wifi or are back on your home network. So you get all the features including automatic place detection without any roaming bills :-)

 Here’s an example of some guys who used it when driving a Toyota Yaris to Mongolia with _very_ limited data! https://esplor.io/eastern-ramble...

@jonbstrong We also tried the app at 10,000 feet without any mobile signal and it still worked, as you can see here https://esplor.io/famanson/flyin... :D

@leanne_beesley Thank you!! :D

@perryroper Thank you so much! Really appreciate it

@perryroper Speaking of integrations, for anybody Tripcase users around here, we have integrations with that platform as well :D

Thanks @donte_ll! We have been thinking a lot about that and spending a lot of time refining it - the challenge has been to try and create something that works entirely automatically but at the same time gives you a story as opposed to just a moment in time. It's a bit of a cliché but we believe the journey is just as important as the destination. What's great is we've been finding engagement times to be really high and the feedback from our users is really nice (app store reviews have also been great), so it sounds like we're getting good at the storytelling part :-) But we're always trying to improve, so please let us know any thoughts!

@timfernando Keep up the good work! Another thing, can a user share a trip with people who don't have the app installed? In the other words, would my Facebook friends be able to view my trip?

@donte_ll thanks, really appreciate you taking the time! Absolutely, you can share via a private link or publicly - the latter will have a readable slug and be visible to search engines. We support FB metadata, as well as Twitter and embeds Here's a recent example of a team & friends get together in Italy :-) https://esplor.io/famanson/belli...

@lemakkan Hah! Awesome idea actually :) It's crazy how many things people are doing with Esplorio! For example, one of our users uses it to record how many days he has been out of the UK (for visa purposes). A lot of users have actually been using public trips to decide where to go next :D What's really interesting is that hotels are also using Esplorio to showcase the trips their guests can take when they are staying with them https://esplor.io/kingsway-hall-... 😀

@essasaulat Awesome! A personal-log-of-where-I-actually-have-been is pretty neat. Has a bearing on visas, taxes, ... your carbon footprint 😬

@lemakkan Exactly! ✈️🌏👣

@lemakkan @essasaulat we've been getting a lot of feedback about this actually. I've been using it personally to help calculate my CO2 output when travelling, but people have been using it for insurance, hotels or even recording behind the scenes events at Grand Prix like Williams Martini Racing: https://esplor.io/williamsracing... (I love the photo of the trophy going through the security scanner at the airport)!

Thanks @hunterdoug, really flattered 🙂 We think it's a pretty tough problem - we have built a lot of custom tech to solve the problems we've faced, everything from building our own reverse geocoder, custom timezone management (*biggest nightmare ever* - did you know you can go _forward_ in time when flying West in Brazil?!), image resizer, queueing system and of course the low power tracking and UI that handles thousands of data points but generally manages 60fps rendering.