Download the official Historic Graves app to discover amazing and interesting Historic Graves across Ireland and the UK.
Historic Graves is a community-focussed, grassroots, heritage project.
Local community groups are trained in low-cost, high-tech, field survey of historic graveyards and recording of their own oral histories.
Building a multi-media, online record, of the historic graveyards in their own areas. Uniting to form a national resource.
Key features:
• View Historic Graves images and Addresses.
• Listen to Accounts from locals on Historic Grave sites.
• Watch video tours of fascinating Historic Grave sites.
• Discover Graves nearby with the Find Nearby Graves search.
• Explore Placenames, GPS coordinates and Gravestone Engraving for Interesting Historic Graves.
• Reunite yourself with the burial places of your ancestors.
• Google Maps integration means you can get driving and walking directions to any of our graves.
• Reveal the distance between you and a nearby grave.
Website: HistoricGraves.ie
Twitter: @historicgraves
ChangeLog:
• Version 0.9.19 β
• Adds support for Google Maps API V3
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• Version 0.9.18 β
• Fixes UI consistency issue with lists of graves
• Better notification on Audio download slow connections
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• Version 0.9.17 β
• Fixes UI consistency issue with lists of graves
• Better notification on Audio download slow connections
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• Version 0.9.16 β
• Adds better audio player
• Improves error handling
• Updated color scheme to improve readability
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• Version 0.9.12 β
• Adds Support for UK grave Addresses
• Improves progress and notification of progress on loading search and grave results.
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• Version 0.9.11 β
• Fixes and issue where the an exit button would not show on the home screen.
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• Version 0.9.10 ß
• Application now predicts the thumbnail url of Grave Images to reduce bandwidth consumption.
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• Version 0.9.9 ß
• Fixed an issue with GPS location caching on start-up.
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• Version 0.9.8 ß
• Added display of users distance from graves.
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• Version 0.9.7 β
• Application now responds with a notification when no network is present.
• Minor UI improvements
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• Version: 0.9.6β
• Users can now click on the image of a grave location and be taken to that location for directions and more info.
• Added some UI enhancements to reduce the occurrence of empty screens on low bandwidth connections
• Some minor tweaking of how errors are handled
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• Version: 0.9.5β
• Fixed how some graves are displayed when there is no grave image.
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• Version: 0.9.4β
• Updated the Android Minimum Version requirement to 2.0.
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• Version: 0.9.3β
• Fixed some issues when reverse geo-coding addresses from gps coordinates.
• Fixed some Audio issues when listening to grave stories.
