@gillianim Thanks so much! Since we were last hunted, we’ve been in constant touch with our users to learn how to best improve the app and have built a tonne of new features in Esplorio 2.0, making sure it’s the best way to help people record and share their travels 😀 Of all the new features, the two that things we’re most excited about are: - My Places: A way for users to browse/search all the places they’ve visited in the past. - Arc Detection: We’ve built a unique new system that has the highest quality GPS tracking and lowest battery usage of any other app of its kind. http://giphy.com/gifs/tony-stark... On top of that, we’ve made changes throughout the app to make your content stand out, plus new views like a 3D globe view of your trip, and tonnes of changes to make the experience of using Esplorio seamless.

@loudijk Thanks Lex :D :D

@paul_s_kemp Thanks Paul :D Sounds like you have a fun 2017 planned! Remember, you can still retroactively create your trip to Asia using past iPhone photos and through past social media content :D All you have to do is enter the start/end dates and Esplorio will bring together all the content from that range to create a trip ✈️🌏

Hi @jonbstrong, absolutely. Esplorio will work offline without a data connection for weeks at a time. We keep your data stored offline and then sort it out when you get access to wifi or are back on your home network. So you get all the features including automatic place detection without any roaming bills :-)

 Here’s an example of some guys who used it when driving a Toyota Yaris to Mongolia with _very_ limited data! https://esplor.io/eastern-ramble...

@jonbstrong We also tried the app at 10,000 feet without any mobile signal and it still worked, as you can see here https://esplor.io/famanson/flyin... :D

@alexsnurnikov thank for writing. Sorry about the button - we noticed that a couple of hours after it went live :-( However we've got a build coming through in hopefully < 24hrs (it has been with Apple for a few hours now) which fixes that. In the mean time you can still add integrations by hitting "settings" and then "add integrations". Glad you like the cat, his name is Polo and is drawn by my better half @efjmc http://emily.gd. We're hoping to have a bit more of him in the future if Emily can find more time :-)

Thanks @hunterdoug, really flattered 🙂 We think it's a pretty tough problem - we have built a lot of custom tech to solve the problems we've faced, everything from building our own reverse geocoder, custom timezone management (*biggest nightmare ever* - did you know you can go _forward_ in time when flying West in Brazil?!), image resizer, queueing system and of course the low power tracking and UI that handles thousands of data points but generally manages 60fps rendering.

@lisadziuba thanks Lisa! We've started using Flawless too, really helpful!

@lemakkan Hah! Awesome idea actually :) It's crazy how many things people are doing with Esplorio! For example, one of our users uses it to record how many days he has been out of the UK (for visa purposes). A lot of users have actually been using public trips to decide where to go next :D What's really interesting is that hotels are also using Esplorio to showcase the trips their guests can take when they are staying with them https://esplor.io/kingsway-hall-... 😀

@essasaulat Awesome! A personal-log-of-where-I-actually-have-been is pretty neat. Has a bearing on visas, taxes, ... your carbon footprint 😬

@lemakkan Exactly! ✈️🌏👣

@lemakkan @essasaulat we've been getting a lot of feedback about this actually. I've been using it personally to help calculate my CO2 output when travelling, but people have been using it for insurance, hotels or even recording behind the scenes events at Grand Prix like Williams Martini Racing: https://esplor.io/williamsracing... (I love the photo of the trophy going through the security scanner at the airport)!

Thanks @donte_ll! We have been thinking a lot about that and spending a lot of time refining it - the challenge has been to try and create something that works entirely automatically but at the same time gives you a story as opposed to just a moment in time. It's a bit of a cliché but we believe the journey is just as important as the destination. What's great is we've been finding engagement times to be really high and the feedback from our users is really nice (app store reviews have also been great), so it sounds like we're getting good at the storytelling part :-) But we're always trying to improve, so please let us know any thoughts!

@timfernando Keep up the good work! Another thing, can a user share a trip with people who don't have the app installed? In the other words, would my Facebook friends be able to view my trip?

@donte_ll thanks, really appreciate you taking the time! Absolutely, you can share via a private link or publicly - the latter will have a readable slug and be visible to search engines. We support FB metadata, as well as Twitter and embeds Here's a recent example of a team & friends get together in Italy :-) https://esplor.io/famanson/belli...

@arnabkar47 Thanks Arnab! Also thanks for spotting the old logo, I've just changed and uploaded it :-)

@perryroper Thank you so much! Really appreciate it

@perryroper Speaking of integrations, for anybody Tripcase users around here, we have integrations with that platform as well :D

@mashallkhattak Thanks! :D :D

@riskr Thank you so much! We have even more exciting things coming in the months ahead, so do keep an eye out for our feature announcements :D

@ashutosh508 Thanks! Glad you like it so much :) When you are testing it, do keep in touch via the feedback button :D We'd love to hear how things go and how we can improve things further!

@samuelcardillo Thanks so much :D Really appreciate it!

@craig_lee thanks for the kind words! We always love to be compared to the big guys. I think we're quite proud of our timezones management - probably because it's something we as a team have collectively lost a lot of hair over. The plus side is that we do appear to handle peoples' photos in different timezones better than Apple's own Photos app :-)

@euergetes thanks for commenting and your kind words! That's a good question and actually one we've had from dozens of people in the same situation, we've actually got Moves integration on our backlog but as you've reminded me about it it's something I'll try and push up the list. Our system should already be technically able to handle the locations, but would you like other parts of Moves data too?

@timfernando @timfernando wow, this is fantastic news indeed! I always liked how Moves just collects data in the background and "knows" the places you've been befor, so you don't have to interact with it too much. The problem has always been with extracting that data. There is no search, tags, charts, only the day by day time log. If you could somehow get the places from Moves and integrate it to your timeline for past entries and maybe make it searchable, I'd be completely sold.

@timfernando I never cared for the fitness aspect of Moves though, there are better apps and devices for that, but my Moves places are invaluable sources for me for where I've been. As you probably know Moves integrates with services such as Move-O-Scope, that is able to indicate you movements for entire Months and Years over a regular map, now something like that would be great to have in an app. Well of course basic integration would be already a huge step up for my purpose, not to mention the ability to attach notes and photos, which you already do in a beautiful manner! Anyway, just a little food for tought, in the meantime I'm really excited about the possibility to switch to your app! Thanks for the quick response, by the way, and good luck guys!

@euergetes that's really interesting and really helpful, thanks! We had been a bit cautious to move on Moves (pardon the pun) because we weren't sure if people will want the health data integrated too - but I think most, like you, might only care about the places rather than the health especially as much of that comes "for free" from things like the Health app these days. I've made a new ticket in our tracker to look at Moves. I'm hoping we might be able to push this out in the next month or two if the data we get back is compatible :-) By the way the web version of Esplorio also has something called Travelgraphs and Badges (coming soon to iOS too). These show you your travels on a yearly basis and give you some achievements for visiting certain places.

@timfernando oh, I didn't know you had a web version as well! Rock on! I like what I hear more and more, I start to feel sorry about not discovering your app sooner! Well if you'd really look into that Moves integration... 😄 Best of luck and thanks for all the info! Once again, good luck with development! Cheers!

@imakesoft thanks Perttu! If you get a chance to try it out, we'd really appreciate your thoughts :-)

@scawtent @essasaulat Thanks for the kind words Scott! Glad you're enjoying it :-) How are you finding "My Places" by the way? RE: the random businesses - sorry about that, it happens in some places more than others, but we do actually have two rather neat (I think) features that combine auto-learning and some UI changes. Stay tuned! In the mean time you can bulk edit in trips - so if you edit the location of one place it will ask you if you'd like to change all of the places marked with the same location in that trip.

@leanne_beesley Thank you!! :D

@robynchaaang Hah! Yes it gets rid of 100% of Tumblr guilt :D The other thing is that since it records routes, places AND photos, your Esplorio trips will have a tonne more detail :D