{"id":103,"date":"2009-10-05T07:22:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T07:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2009-10-05T07:23:59","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T07:23:59","slug":"cyclopedia-on-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/cyclopedia-on-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclopedia on iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>iPhone application developers are arguably doing some of the most creative things in the mobile industry today and Cyclopedia is no exception. One of the latest useful application making use of augmented reality, Cyclopedia brings you wikipedia information about the area you are in.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_105\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/cyclopedia2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105\" title=\"cyclopedia\" src=\"http:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/cyclopedia2.png\" alt=\"cyclopedia screenshot\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/cyclopedia2.png 640w, https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/cyclopedia2-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">cyclopedia screenshot<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->Simply fire up the app and point it at a well known object (a building or other landmark perhaps) to get wikipedia information on it. This is essentially a mash-up of the iPhone&#8217;s native GPS and compass functionality along with wikipedia content.<\/p>\n<p>Drawbacks currently are possibly the amount of information available when away from well known areas. Not everyone lives in London! But, this adds a new dimension to travelling and exploring a new city with this new tour guide on your phone. No doubt, where information is lacking it will also support the effort to encourage the contribution of more content as people fill in the information gaps.<\/p>\n<p>Cyclopedia on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"445\" height=\"364\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3Cv6cJA2WgA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;border=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"445\" height=\"364\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3Cv6cJA2WgA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;border=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iPhone application developers are arguably doing some of the most creative things in the mobile industry today and Cyclopedia is no exception. One of the latest useful application making use of augmented reality, Cyclopedia brings you wikipedia information about the area you are in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[31,23],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","tag-ar","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}