Rough Guides World Lens
By Rough Guides Limited
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Description
Rough Guides’ photographers have been travelling the world for years, their mission to capture the essence of a place, its people, its sights and monuments, its heart and soul. This app showcases the best of what they have seen on their travels: amazing festivals and celebrations; remote paradises; people at work and at play; powerful art and amazing architecture. Overall, their objective has been to document the sheer richness and pleasure of the world at large.
Features
• Be inspired! An evocative gallery of hundreds of Rough Guides amazing photographs.
• Updated with new photographs every few weeks, so each time you open the app, look out for the new pictures.
• Browse the location of all of the images on a map of the world (requires internet connection).
• Each image includes an extended caption, penned by Rough Guides’ team of writers and locally based correspondents, evoking the essence of the picture and the place.
• Share links to specific images with your friends and family via email, Twitter or Facebook.
• Create a list of your favourite images so that they are easy to navigate back to whenever you want.
• Download any of the images as a wallpaper.
• Features a slideshow control that lets you view all the images one after the other.
• If you want to find out more about any of the destinations, there are links to find out more on www.roughguides.com.
This single application can be installed on both the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
What's New in Version 2.0
Push notifications.
Customer Reviews
v 2.0: How Much Space is Needed for Photos?? Infinite??
This is potentially interesting and informative, and maybe even inspirational (feeling like a world citizen, etc), but there's a glitch--The app is listed in the app store as 5.5 Mb, but when I start it, it begins to gradually download an apparently infinite quantity of photos of the world. It's definitely pretty, but it filled up half of my remaining 1.6 Gb, before I did a force quit and cleared the memory with Memory Pro to make it stop. I immediately deleted the app, but the extra space is now gone from my phone. I assume the photos are still somewhere on my iPhone, and I'll have to do a Restore to get the space back. Nice Idea, but the space required for the photos is not readily apparent in app description. OOPS!
P.S.--Otherwise, I like the Rough Guided stuff (I've purchased a couple of their books on iBooks)
Beautiful photos! Didn't have memory issue
After reading feedback below, I decided to try it on my iPad 2 anyway. So I checked memory before and after downloading the app AND downloading all the pictures. It took only 81 MB which I feel is well worth it due to the beauty of the pictures and the information given for each one. I'm not sure why others had memory issues with the complete download. I guess since I never get to go anywhere, it's definitely worth 81 MB to see a glimpse of the world! Thanks for an interesting and free app!
Nice photos, poor app
See all those photos in the screenshot up there? When you first start this app, it will slowly download and store *all* of them - not thumbnails, the full photos - and there's no way to stop it, or limit the memory it consumes. Apart from uninstalling, of course...
- Free
- Category: Travel
- Updated: Feb 01, 2012
- Version: 2.0
- Size: 5.5 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Rough Guides Limited
- © Copyright Rough Guides, 2010
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later
