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BillionGraves Camera App (v. 2.2.2) Разработано AppTime |
As I delve into my family history, I celebrate every ancestor I find, and every record or scrap of information I can locate. But over and over, I run into roadblocks. Anyone who really digs for their family roots knows what that feels like. All these records and snippets of history I’m trying to find are out there, somewhere. But all too often I don’t know where to find it, or I can’t find it because I can’t travel to wherever my ancestors were born, lived, or died. But I realized something: every record is near somebody, even if that somebody isn’t me. As far as headstones and graves go, someone out there lives next to the cemetery I need. And who knows, maybe the cemetery they need to search through is the one in my home town.
So my friends and I started work on BillionGraves.com. In building the site and its iPhone and now Android apps, we’ve created a framework that allows people all over the world to map out photos of all the headstones in their local cemeteries and upload them to the BillionGraves.com database. Once the photos are there, fellow family historians can transcribe the information from the headstones and make it easy to search, which puts unique headstone records only mouse-clicks away from anyone looking for their ancestors. By using the smartphone's location services, we can ensure that even when descendants are half a world away, they can not only see their ancestors’ information, but they can also see the headstones and precisely where those headstones are. Previously undocumented records end up collected in an easy-to-access, free-to-use location, and family historians anywhere can use this framework to build on their existing research.
The trouble is that even though we’ve built this framework, it won’t amount to much unless we have help from all over the world. And by all over the world, I mean if we don’t have help from YOU. We have the audacious goal to accurately acquire, transcribe and share at least one billion grave records, but that can’t happen without others who share that same vision...
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[2013-08-19] A Google User: Great idea, but app needs work As soon as I tapped "Take Pictures" my phone froze. I had to remove the battery to reboot. |
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[2013-08-15] A Google User: Poor support Many problems with uploading, locked up no help from support. It not work on samsung S4 locks up and you h a ve remove the battrry restart the phone. Support is no hrlp. |
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[2013-07-10] A Google User: Locks every time I try to use it. Locks phobe causing me to reboot when I press the Take Picture button. |
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[2013-06-27] A Google User: Temporarily Disappointed This app is a GREAT CONCEPT but a huge disappointment. I spent hours in the heat taking photos only to discover they are so pixilated, they are essentially useless. After attempting to review my first photo (which I found to be a cumbersome task) I decided just to proceed recording photos. My HTC One has an outstanding camera. I made sure the lens was clean, the lighting was relatively even and bright, and each photo was in focus. I was extremely irritated to see the results once uploaded. Attempting to read an image in order to transcribe the information is all but futile. Another issue which I found disappointing was the lack of a photo's coordinate information being displayed on the Billion Graves website. That information is important and necessary if a person wants to locate a grave using a hand held GPS. PLEASE fix the app; this is an extremely worthwhile endeavor. |
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[2013-06-23] A Google User: Love it! Love this app! Easy to use on my Droid RAZR HD. Only downfall is the quality of the images which can sometimes be blurry. |
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[2013-06-21] A Google User: Not useable The app hangs at least every 4th photo taken and corrupts the image in all the others. Those images that are "passable" are so compressed and low quality (even on my 8mp HTC One-X) that most are useless to transcribe from. I've sent a bug report using the sites support system but have yet to receive a reply. |
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[2013-05-29] A Google User: Awesome Idea BUT It is getting to the point I don't want to waste my time taking pictures with this app.... Worked pretty good when I had the apple, but now that I have a droid type, well, Just read the stuff below, same problems here as them.. no need to beat a dead horse.. S4 locks when hit camera, Tab2 laughs at you, S3 seem to work and said GPS was excellent, till I got home and most of the graves were out in the street. Errors on 50% of the pictures, telling you to retake it... Waste of a good idea. |
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[2013-05-29] A Google User: Works, now, on my 4G LTE, by LG One issue: my phone/camera has the ability to focus on a particular spot by tapping the screen, but the app doesn't so I sometimes get pictures of graves a little out of focus. |
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[2013-05-11] A Google User: You are all sick This is a disgusting app cashing in on the dead my wife seen her fathers grave on here and is so upset by it all. what right do you all have to take pictures of other peoples grave stones i hope you are all ashamed of yourselves What has this world come too? Get a life you sados |
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[2013-04-22] A Google User: Uninstalled After photographing the whole cemetery, a pop up came on my screen for me to log in before upload. I re-entered my information. The pop up came up again and stayed on my screen even after I closed the app. Had to uninstall the app to get the pop up off my screen. |
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