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Ha I actually made an iOS & watchOS app based on that side of the equation after thinking "what's the minimum input I can provide for good hydration reminders?"

It gives a reminder to drink water any time it's been three hours since you've peed...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pee-see-drink-more-water/id1...

Not super scientific, but less of a hassle than tracking water input and it tends to adapt well to factor in things like exercise where more water is needed. It also tends to even out over time when drinking alcohol or coffee. Urine color can also vary depending on foods, like how B12 makes it fluorescent yellow, so the time factor can be another useful indicator.


Such a clever idea.


Woah, you also made Photo Find? Hell yeah


Yep :-D thanks! Makes me really happy that you know about Photo Find!


I don't have much experience with DSLRs and didn't even know there were GPS modules for them, but that makes sense and is awesome!

But yep it just pulls the lat and lon from the EXIF data, so it should work fine. The standard for EXIF is degrees, minutes, seconds and then a separate "Ref" value for N or S.

I have to do a little math on those values to turn everything into a decimal format, but based on this standard I would assume everything saving location in EXIF data would use this same format so it should all be compatible:

http://www.exiv2.org/Exif2-2.PDF (See page 53 of the PDF under the heading GPSLatitude)

If you test it, let me know!


I just might do that!

My initial thought was pulling some of my favorite shots from Flickr and using this to find the location of where the shot was taken. Great for finding those hidden photoshoot locations!

Unfortunately most DSLRs do not have the GPS built it. It's usually an add-on attachment.


Yeah! Awesome to hear! I was already thinking about adding that because sometimes some driving or public transit is needed to get within walking range haha


Oh yeah! That part sucks. I should have done more name research first. I always tell people to search "photo find hiking" (quotes not necessary) because that's easier to spell than my last name and it's the only app that comes up.


Haha not a premium feature! Sometimes there are calibration issues. I meant to add some calibration checks and user feedback about needing to calibrate at some point.

Try rotating your phone around in a circle a bunch and then see if the compass starts moving and correcting itself.


Haha I know, I know... you're not the first to ask about Android!

The reason I tried JavaScript first was to start off cross-platform, but when that failed I developed for the hardware I use.

However, I've been meaning to try out some Android development, so maybe at some point...


If you need help with an Android port, I'd be glad to pitch in.


Sure, but have you ever tried navigating to a photo that way?

The map doesn't show your location, and even if it did you would still need some kind of compass arrow, like the Google Maps app for iOS shows, to be able to navigate to it.

Also, this works by pasting a photo from the clipboard instead of just using photos in your library.


Thanks! It's about time.


OK, sorry you feel that way about SI!


As long as you already have the app and photo on your phone it just uses the compass and GPS, which are both sensors built in to the iPhone and don't require internet.


sorry. I'm an idiot and didn't think about gps seperately from internet


It's a pretty good point actually! Because Airplane Mode disables GPS on the iPhone.


That's a little odd. Isn't GPS generally completely passive? That is, it should not be possible to cause any sort of interference.


I thought it was passive, too. I've googled a little in the past and some people say it's in the same chip as the cellular radios (and the whole chip gets knocked out in Airplane Mode). Others say the amplification of signals necessary could cause interference.


A radio receiver often uses a signal of an intermediate frequency: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_frequency

So a receiver that would appear functionally to be passive could still conceivably cause interference.


Cool. Was not aware of the usage of intermediate frequencies in radio receivers. Thanks for the knowledge :)


Phones often use A-GPS, which includes an active component: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS


This is true, but it seems like it should not be hard to disable AGPS in airplane mode.


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