Dopplr – The Social Atlas app for iPhone
Dopplr - The Social Atlas puts the combined knowledge of Dopplr travellers in your pocket, for free.
Because your iPhone knows your location, the app can show you nearby places to eat, stay and explore, as recommended by the Dopplr community. It also comes with built-in recommendations for 250 popular cities around the world.
With a single tap, you can add new places you've discovered to the Dopplr Social Atlas. You'll be able to confirm these additions, and enter more details, next time you log in to dopplr.com.
The app is a great pocket travel guide even if you do not have a Dopplr account; but if you do, it offers much more. You can keep track of your fellow travellers, find out where they are now, and what future trips they have planned. You can even contact them directly from inside the app. You can view your own planned trips, and find co-incidences where fellow travellers will be nearby.
Dopplr – The Social Atlas application for iPhone from the iTunes App Store.
Requirements: you will need iPhone OS 2.2.1 or higher.
How to
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1. Install the application
Download Dopplr - The Social Atlas from the iTunes App store to your desktop computer or directly to your iPhone. Then sync your iPhone. If you've got an account on Dopplr, the app will ask you to log in to Dopplr when appropriate. You will only have to do this once.
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2. Find a place
The app opens the city map of the city you're currently in, and shows your location as a blue dot. You can zoom in and out with standard pinch gestures. Wherever there's a marked place, you'll see a square marker. Places are sorted into categories: Eat, Stay, Explore and My Places. Switch between each category by tapping the icons on the map corners. Tap the list icon to see a list of places sorted by their distance from your current location.
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3. Indicate you have been to a place
Tap on the marker for that place. A popup will open; tap on the green plus symbol to say you've been to the place – it will change to a checkmark. Tap the star to say that you've been there and you liked it. Tap the checkmark to undo.
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4. Get more information about a place
Tap on the place marker. Tap on "more" and you'll see all the information Dopplr knows about that place, such as phone number, address and website. You can also open the location in your iPhone's Maps app, view the Dopplr page for the place in Safari, or create an email message containing the details.
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5. Add a new place
You can add a new place from your current location at any time, by tapping on the blue location dot. Tap the green plus symbol to say you've been to that place, or the "more" link to add more details. The new place will be stored on your phone but won't be added to Dopplr's database until you've confirmed the addition (and added more details, if you wish) at dopplr.com.
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6. View a different city
Tap on the Cities tab. An alphabetical list of the top 250 cities on Dopplr opens. Choose the one you want.
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7. See your planned trips
Tap on the Trips tab. All your upcoming trips are listed. By tapping one of them, you'll see the trip details such as its description and coincidences with fellow travellers. Tap "See places in this city" to see related places in the map view.
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8. View your fellow travellers' trips
Tap on the People tab. You can choose from an alphabetical list or a "Nearby" view, which sorts your fellow travellers by their proximity to your current location. Tap on a name to see a list of that person's planned trips. Tap a trip to see more details about it. If we can match the person to a name in your iPhone's Address Book, you'll also see their phone number and email address. You can also contact people not listed in your Address Book by sending them a direct message through Dopplr.
If you need any more help using the iPhone app, or with any other aspect of Dopplr, please get in touch.