Pin Drop - Your Personal POI Manager

MaFt

I've just stumbled upon a neat little iPhone app called Pin Drop. It is a rather slick 'personal POI management' tool that allows you to add, store and retrieve 'location bookmarks'. The premise is simple; the app aims to make it easy to find all those neat little places you find while out and about but don't have an easy way to remember them. A great chippy on a back alley in Scarborough, a really good family-friendly pub, a great quiet spot on the beach, your parking space and/or tent at the Leeds Festival or maybe just your hotel location while on holiday. Basically, anything you want to return to at some point.

Pins can be categorised and the names (and associated colours) are fully customisable for easy location on the map. You can also add photo's to aid you. Browsing the map is a breeze, the app can use your location or you can scroll manually; you can also filter out which pin categories are displayed. Pin Drop also has a website at http://pindropapp.com with which you can sync your pins, edit your categories and edit your pin details.

All the pins you drop are private but you can share the pins via SMS and email in the app and also post to Facebook and Twitter from the website. A sample pin link can be seen with my local chippy: Terminus Fisheries.

It's a well made app with a key feature - flexibility. The app does not try to tell you what to use pins for - there are a plethora of 'Where did I park my car' apps and this certainly isn't one of them! And Android version is also in the works but with no release date as yet. Oh, and it's currently free (it was previously £1.99). You can download the iPhone version here: Pin Drop for iOS.

Tobas · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 06, 2004 Posts: 90

A hook into myphonedesktop or Navigon would be a nice addition.

Duddy · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:09 pm Post subject:

It's also on the Android Market Android PinDrop @ 69p although I haven't tried it as yet.
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MaFt · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:35 pm Post subject:

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MaFt · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:17 pm Post subject:

I have my uses Wink

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Philip · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:31 am Post subject:

Any idea whether you can import/export POIs (ideally from/to .OV2)?

I keep all my historic "personal" POIs in .OV2 files (and mostly use a TomTom PND for navigation). I like the level of control I have over them - I can edit them with POIedit, and convert them to just about any other format when required.

I couldn't see any mention on the web site, and won't be able to try the app until they release a version for Android..
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MaFt · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:58 am Post subject:

No, there's no way to import or export. I might suggest it to them, a way to export as a CSV file and email it. It could then be converted elsewhere for you to use.

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MaFt · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 1:23 pm Post subject:

I've suggested the export option which tey said they may look into. They've also informed me that the next update has a 'navigate with tomtom' and 'navigate with navigon' option. I've also suggested they add sygic and igo primo to that list too as both those have the custom uri's required to add use that.

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JockTamsonsBairn · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 6:25 pm Post subject:

The ability to import an OV2, created on my TT, without having to convert it first, would be very useful - it would make keeping it up to date much easier.
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caffeinehit · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 09, 2012 Posts: 1

Hey guys,

Just wanted to give you an update (still no Android I'm afraid).

We now have full import / export on the website (http://pindropapp.com). Within the iPhone app we also have Navigon / TomTom and Waze direction support.

Would love to know what you all think.

Cheers,
Andy @ Pin Drop

K13ehr · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 12, 2008 Posts: 286

Is this the original version for android or the copy version?

it's from Think Bucket.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appinventor.ai_thinkbucketapps.PinDropFree

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