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Fotopedia Heritage iPhone App Review

Description:

We have all heard of wikipedia, an encyclopedia made by users.  Well not only is it important to contribute to these types as things, but it is important that these types of resources be available for people to be able to take advantage of.  Well now there is a free app for the iphone that helps you to discover and explore places in this great nation and world.  The app is called Fotopedia Heritage, and it is for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.  What exactly is this app?  Well this app concept is very simple actually.  The app  is a wikipedia of sorts, but it uses photos to help people learn about things instead of text information.  This means if you want to check out the pyramids of Egypt, you can with this amazing app.  The app gets new photos constantly, and they are high quality photographs as there are lots of amazing photographers out there.

There are over 20,000 photos ilustrating over 3,000 points of interest, and that number is steadily growing.  This site has built in features from the Unesco World Heritage Center, fotopedia Heritage helps to reinvent for you the amazing picture book on the coffee table.  Having access to these amazing photos can really help to spark interest and can help you learn a lot about these places.

Features:

• explore our heritage deeper and deeper by being able to navigate carefully through chosen tags that can help you to learn a lot about different places
• learn more about each place by reading rich descriptions from UNESCO and Wikipedia as they are both incorporated into the app to give you a full resource to search from
• browse an interactive map and localize precisely each site so you can see how far away you are from some of these amazing places
• The app has an easy to use navigation screen and makes it very easy to navigate and find exactly what it is you are looking for

This app is a great resource for people that have some time to kill and want to do it in an educational way.  If you love photos and love places on the earth, give this app a try and download it today! The app is free so you have nothing to lose by giving it a try!

Conclusion:

This app costs nothing and has been given a 4 out of 5 star rating by other users.