App Description
Historic Places is the perfect application for history buffs, travelers, and locals looking to discover the history of their area. Search for historic places near your current location, view a description and photo of each site, and navigate to the location using a simulated compass arrow or map screen.Historic Places includes districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects that are significant in history, architecture, archeology, engineering, and culture.
This application is brought to you by Groundspeak, creator of the popular iPhone Geocaching application and owner of Geocaching.com and Waymarking.com.
This app presents the full Waymarking.com database of historic places, including over 44,000 community-submitted historic points of interest worldwide.
Features:
- Directly access listings for over 44,000 historic places worldwide
- Search for historic places near your current location
- View place description and photo
- View your location and site location on the embedded map
- Navigate to location using a simulated compass arrow or directly from the map screen
- Filter by subcategory to view only the types of historic places that you want to see
- Rotate Map to match your heading (iPhone 3GS only)
This is the first version of the app with more features to follow!
If you have any trouble with this application, please email contact@groundspeak.com.
All the best,
Groundspeak
App Changes
May 06, 2011 Price Decrease: $0.99 -> FREE!
December 17, 2009 Initial Release




