Find Your Local Beach And The Water Quality Of That Beach Through This Amazing App — Swim Guide!
We are always looking for great ideas, inventions, and outright convenience that can really help our family — you — our WowTowelers and future WowTowelers just looking for now.
As you know, we truly live in a mobile phone society and rely heavily on our devices. Here is an app that was featured on MSNBC this morning as a great way to find your local beach. Now it is NOT available in all areas, but it does have a good decent size and they are growing. That means your beach can be next if not on there already. I love when technnology like this can truly help our customers. And the great news is that the app is totally FREE.
The name of this app is Swim Guide. They are from Lake Ontario serving both Canada and the United States and just updated this latest app on April 25, 2012 so it is recent. I am going to copy what they have on the site so you can see if it is right for you. And again, it is totally FREE.
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Description
The Swim Guide makes it easy to explore and enjoy the best beaches in these areas — Alabama, Alberta, British Columbia, California, Charleston SC, Florida, the Great Lakes, and the Ottawa River region. Many beaches in California and Florida were added in May, 2012. Be sure to check them out! You can list the beaches closest to you, browse the map, or search for a beach by name. Every beach is marked with a Green, Yellow, or Red icon so you know when a beach is open for swimming and when the water quality is poor.
The Swim Guide is the best tool for enjoying the beach: – Find your closest beach – Discover a wide variety of beaches, ranging from city parks to remote lakes ideal for camping – Compare real-time and historical water quality information for many different beaches – Get directions to the beach of your choice – Bookmark beaches for easy access – Share your beach with friends on Facebook and Twitter
The Swim Guide gives you original descriptions with photographs of 1,800 different beaches in Alabama, Alberta, BC, ***California(NEW)***, Charleston SC, Illinois, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, New York State, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Quebec, and Wisconsin. Find the best beaches in cities like Charleston, Chicago, Edmonton, Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles, Miami, Ottawa, San Francisco, Toronto, and Vancouver. The Swim Guide offers more than just beach and water quality information. There’s a little history, geography and culture, too!
The Swim Guide integrates with the maps app, so you can get walking, transit, or driving directions to the beach of your choice.
The Swim Guide connects to Twitter, Facebook, email, and SMS text messaging. Share your favourite beaches with your friends. Send them directions so they can join you!
The Swim Guide helps you report any pollution problems or environmental concerns that you may spot when you are at the beach. Use the Report button to notify your local Waterkeeper, and we will help you protect your beach.
The Swim Guide is the only charity app of its kind: – Like to swim? The app connects you to water organizations working to protect your beach – Want to get involved? The app helps you volunteer, learn more, or donate to charity
The Swim Guide was created by Lake Ontario Waterkeeper and is growing with the support of Waterkeeper Alliance and its members. Check out the “About” section of the app for a complete list of participating Waterkeepers. The Swim Guide is expanding all the time to include more beaches in other parts of Canada and the USA!
What’s New in Version 2.01
Version 2.01 includes added stability when viewing the map offline.
Swim Guide 2.0 includes an updated, sleek interface that makes the app even easier to navigate. With the new navigation menu, you can now find a beach or report pollution from anywhere in the app.
Charleston, South Carolina was added to Swim Guide in June 2012.
Other 2.0 upgrades: – Panoramio integration shows up to 20 photos of every beach – New pollution reporting form lets you add photos to your pollution reports – Date/time stamp tells you when a beach status was last updated – Tap a beach status for more information – New pie charts show the historical status of each beach when you tap on a beach status – New source section tells you who samples at each beach and what water quality standards apply – Map view now lets you see a beach location without launching Google Maps – New info section tells you more about Waterkeeper Alliance members and the Swim Guide sponsors.
