iCasualTours app for iPhone and iPad

iCasualTours for iOS makes it easy to capture, organize, and share your everyday travel experience. A casual walk or a two-weeks vacation, the app will help you remember it as it happened and share it with your friends.

The app records your travel routes and lets you take geo-tagged pictures as well as check-in and monitor nearby places of your interest, with instant display on your Tour Map. iCasualTours offers advanced location tracking technology, with multiple tracking modes allowing continuos use of the app without noticeable impact on your devices battery.

iCasualTours Upload & Sharing enables uploading your Tours directly to Your Personal Google Account. The Tour Items such as routes, photos, checked-in places, milestones, motion statistics, notes, and links can be easily exported to Google services such as Google Picasa, Google Docs, Google Drive, and Google Maps -- giving you the ownership and full control over your travel data. The app makes it easy to share Tours via Email, Facebook, and Twitter. Multiple upload and sharing modes are available, including event-based, incremental Live Sharing that can happen e.g. whenever you take a geo-tagged photo, check-in a nearby place, or reach a new tour milestone.

Core App Features
Advanced location tracking technology
* Optimised for fine balance between location updates frequency and battery life
* Multiple location tracking modes, from exact to extremely energy-efficient
* Accurate position information, even while in the energy-preserving modes

Tour Recording
* Support for multiple Tour Route Segments
* Visually rich yet clear display of all relevant info on the Tour Map
* Configurable Tour Milestones, both time-based and distance-based
* Detailed motion statistics such as current/average/maximum speeds, distances, ascent/descent, boundary altitudes
* Fully configurable Tour Map, with auto-zoom and many other display options

Tour Photos
* Accurately geo-tagged pictures anytime during a tour
* Easy upload of Tour pictures to Google Picasa Web Albums
* Easy share, with optional link to entire Tour Picasa Photo Album
* Intelligent display on the Tour map, with configurable pictures grouping
* Powerful built-in photo viewer

Tour Places
* Tour Nearby Places, with full Wikipedia integration
* Places monitoring, with automated proximity actions such as auto check-in and configurable places alerts
* Instant display of checked-in Places on the Tour map
* Easy share of checked-in Places

Upload and Sharing
* Direct upload to your personal Google Account , giving you the ownership and full control over your travel data
* Integrated with Google services such as Google Picasa, Google Fusion Tables / Google Docs, Google Drive, and Google Maps
* Configurable upload and sharing of Tour routes, photos, checked-in places, milestones, motion statistics, notes, and links
* Easy Email, Facebook, and Twitter sharing
* Event-based, incremental Live Sharing that can happen automatically on pre-defined events such as taking a new photo, checking-in a new place, reaching a new Tour milestone, resuming a Tour, etc.
* Intelligent use of bandwidth, with incremental data transfers over the network

COMPATIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
* iCasualTours App is compatible with iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S and iPod touch (5th generation and above) running iOS 7.0 or later. Some features such as Tour Nearby Places search, Upload & Share, or Live Sharing require users to be connected to the internet for full functionality
* Note that continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life (please always use location tracking mode that best fits your current Tour or Tour Segment)