Description

With significant coastline on the AtlanticOcean, the Pacific Ocean, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the St.Lawrence River, and the Great Lakes, Canada has hundreds oflighthouses that have faithfully served mariners through the years.Using photographs, information, and insights gathered whilevisiting most of the country’s nearly 700 lighthouses, KraigAnderson has developed LighthouseFriends.com to help others learnabout lighthouses and plan their own visits to these historicstructures. This app is tailored to present this content on yourmobile device with the following useful features:

• Have historical information read out loud while you drive to alighthouse
• View maps showing the location of lighthouses in eachprovince
• Transfer GPS coordinates to a navigation app to help you reach alighthouse
• Record the date of your visit to each lighthouse along with anypersonal notes
• Track the number of lighthouses you’ve visited by province
• Backup your data on Google Drive and sync it across yourdevices
• Filter the lighthouses to show only those that interest you
• List and map lighthouses nearest to you
• Discovery Mode: get automatically notified of nearby lighthousesas you wander around
• Search lighthouses by name within the app or from your homescreen using "OK Google, search for ... in Canadian Lighthouses".Example: "Ok Google, search for Green Island in CanadianLighthouses"

Intuitive icons are shown for each lighthouse to quickly help youdetermine if, among other things, a lighthouse is easilyaccessible, open for climbing, offers overnight accommodations, hasappeared in a movie, and if it is reportedly haunted.

A picture and information on each lighthouse are available withouta data connection, but a data connection is needed to view maps andthe full gallery of images.