@coreyo We thought about a freemium option, but we decided it would mostly hinder the app than make it better. We think $1.99 is a fair price to charge (we're a self funded company/devs gotta eat). The built in option to Wikipedia is handy, but we wanted to take the idea much further and also make a more native reading experience.

@chriseidhof Agreed, sometimes the number of dots on the map can be overwhelming. We're going to try an address this in an update. Right now there's a little hidden feature where if you long press on the first few items in the Nearby tab, it will zoom into where that item is on the map, so you can sort of orient yourself with whatever you're looking at. This breaks down further down on the list, but it's something we're thinking about. Also, we'll be adding support for updating the results when panning the map, it just didn't make the cut for 1.0. Glad you like the idea! Would love to hear any more feedback you have.

@philipamour Glad you like it! We wanted a walkthrough to explain some of the permissions more, it just got cut due to time. We made add one in the future. @chrismasterson is the designer and yes my last name is of a Czech origin, but I'm American.

@dlouhy I'm late to the Party but curious. What made you and Christ look at GPS and Wikipedia and decide to mash 'em up in the app? Who are the users that you have in mind?

@kkdub Both @chrismasterson and I are big fans of the podcast 99% Invisible (http://99percentinvisible.org/) which is a podcast about the 'hidden' design of everything around us. The podcast's motto is 'Always Read The Plaque' because you might learn something new about something that might look ordinary. One episode in particular sticks out for me, it was on the Alvord Lake Bridge (http://99percentinvisible.org/ep...) which Chris and I both live by and have walked under countless times. I didn't realize until listening to that episode that it was the first reinforced concrete bridge in America (https://tamper.io/curiosity/shar...). That got me wondering about what other cool stuff might I be missing that is right under my nose. That lead us down the path to creating Curiosity. Initially it was just going to be a stack of cards of nearby landmarks with a little bit of information, but then it grew into a much bigger app. So our target audience is really anyone who's curious about the world they live in, either on a macro or micro level we try to facilitate that. Wikipedia does a good job on the big picture, but we wanted to bring it down to people's current surroundings and the hope is that interesting things will come from it. We shall see if the idea works out.