Flyover Country - offline flig

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About this app

The window is the best kind of in-flight entertainment. Track your flight with GPS - discover the world below with offline maps and POI.

Learn about the world along the path of your flight, hike, or road trip with GPS tracking. Offline geologic maps and interactive points of interest reveal the locations of fossils and georeferenced Wikipedia articles visible from your airplane window seat, road trip, or hiking trail vista.

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Flyover Country is a National Science Foundation-funded offline mobile app for geoscience outreach and data discovery. The app exposes interactive geologic maps from Macrostrat.org, fossil localities from Neotomadb.org and Paleobiodb.org, Wikipedia articles, offline base maps, and the user’s current GPS determined location, altitude, speed, and heading. The app analyzes a given flight path and caches relevant map data and points of interest (POI), and displays these data during the flight, without in-flight wifi. By downloading only the data relevant to a particular flight path, cache sizes remain reasonable, allowing for a robust experience without an internet connection.

Flyover Country is not limited to the window seat of airplanes. It is also ideal for road trips, hiking, and other outdoor activities such as field trips and geologic fieldwork.

**GPS functionality is only possible from the window seat and GPS reception quality varies by device/conditions**

Ratings and reviews

I use this when driving, hiking, and flying. I love following the geology of an area at such a fine scale, as each hill can have a different origin here in western Oregon. Seeing all the faults is exciting in terms of understanding the topography of the terrain. The developers were very friendly and helpful when I was having issues loading the software in early 2018.

I'm sure it's wonderful, if I had a big data connection. Yes, it has a progress bar. But that progress bar doesn't say exactly how many megabytes is currently trying to download.

This app was really cool while flying cross country. At first it didnt find my gps but after a couple minutes it located us on the map. It has a lot of really great information on it that you can download for ofline use. I was able to show my kids where we were in our trip and some cool information about what we were flying over. I was even able to read to them about different clouds!

What's new

We're now incorporating citizen science observations from NASA's GLOBE program as an optional data layer! In addition, scientists can request observations for different regions of the planet. If you happen to be passing through one of these regions on a trip, you'll be prompted to contribute observations that will help NASA scientists understand our world.