Flyover Country

Flyover Country

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Flyover Country: Your Window Seat to the World’s Geological Wonders

Transform your next flight, road trip, or hike into an interactive expedition. Explore fossils, geologic maps, and Wikipedia articles with professional-grade offline tracking designed for the intellectually curious traveler.

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Publisher

Regents of the University of Minnesota

Category

Travel

Downloads

67K+

User Rating

2.4/5

Total Ratings

0

Locales

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The View Redefined

Discover the interface used by 67K+ users.

Flyover Country app splash screen with the NSF logo and a shield icon over an aerial landscape

Flyover Country app splash screen with the NSF logo and a shield icon over an aerial landscape

Global satellite map interface in the Flyover Country app with path creation option

Global satellite map interface in the Flyover Country app with path creation option

A mobile interface showing a colorful geologic map of Western North America with numerical data clusters and an offline save button.

A mobile interface showing a colorful geologic map of Western North America with numerical data clusters and an offline save button.

Flyover Country app displaying a geologic map and landscape information for Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve

Flyover Country app displaying a geologic map and landscape information for Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve

The Save Offline menu in the Flyover Country app showing geologic data options for a flight path

The Save Offline menu in the Flyover Country app showing geologic data options for a flight path

Flyover Country app showing a satellite map of Peru with geological field guide markers and project information.

Flyover Country app showing a satellite map of Peru with geological field guide markers and project information.

Mobile app interface displaying Clouds and Landscapes categories for aerial discovery

Mobile app interface displaying Clouds and Landscapes categories for aerial discovery

Uncover the Hidden World Beneath Your Journey

The tools that make this app stand out, trusted by 67K+ users.

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Seamless Offline Tracking

Track your journey in real-time without Wi-Fi. Cache your route before you go to see your exact location, altitude, and speed from the window seat.

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Expert Geological Insights

Explore interactive maps and fossil data funded by the National Science Foundation. Turn the landscape into a living history book.

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Smart Points of Interest

Discover georeferenced Wikipedia articles and core samples along your path. Learn the story of every mountain range and valley you cross.

Loved by users worldwide

Trusted by 67K+ people who love this app.

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"I always pick the window seat, but I used to have no idea what I was looking at. This app changed everything. Being able to see the geological history and read Wikipedia articles about the landscape below—all while offline—makes every flight a discovery mission."

David L.
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"An absolute gem for road trips and hiking. The way it identifies rock formations and fossil sites using just GPS is brilliant. It is like having a geologist and a historian sitting in the passenger seat with you. Perfect for anyone who loves the why behind the scenery."

Sarah M.

About the app

Everything you need to know about Flyover Country.

Description

Track your flight with GPS - discover information about the world below and clouds above with offline maps and points of interest. Worldwide. **GPS functionality is only possible from the window seat and GPS reception quality varies by device/conditions** 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, core samples, and georeferenced Wikipedia articles visible from your airplane window seat, road trip, or hiking trail vista. Follow Flyover Country for updates and photos from the sky! https://www.facebook.com/flyovercountryapp/ https://twitter.com/flyovergeo/ https://www.instagram.com/flyovergeo/ https://flyovercountry.io/ Submit issues, suggestions, and comments via Google Forms http://goo.gl/forms/Yhw9AvMcbTOHTZCf1 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 flightpath, 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 field work.

Latest Version

2.6.5

Size

85.4 MB

First Released

Dec 3, 2015

Turn Your Window Seat into a Living Museum

Join thousands of intellectual explorers today. Download the NSF-funded guide to discover geology, fossils, and the world below—all available offline for your next flight, hike, or road trip.

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