I read about some people who get every Post Office in the United States for their hobbies. I also read about some people who want to get all the 50 states. What do these people use for the evidences? Some of them collect the stamps at the post offices, and send some postcards there.
However, now we have a new simple way: Taking "Selfie."
Here are Two things: Take Selfies with...
Wherever You Get Favorite Spots
When you are on your travel, you find a lot of interesting, curious, and strange sites. You can take selfies with the view. (In some locations, taking pictures is strictly prohibited. Please keep the rules, and be happy!)
When You Got New Friends
One of the happinesses of travel is meeting new friends. Now people usually have some SNS accounts such as Facebook and Instagram. You can ask your new friends to take some selfies together and keep the selfies with some notes.
Only try these things, your memories becomes more and more obvious. Your happy experiences are not only for the moment, but for your inspirations of your lives. Possibly this gradually change your future lives.
"#SELFIE" (2014)
by The Chainsmorkers
If your phones are not with the Global Positioning System(GPS), they are able to record not only the dates you take, but your locations on your selfies. I believe you can remember all situations with them. Also, when you map your selfies, the GPS data on your selfies works great!
Some months ago, media informed about the wrong directions of Apple
Maps. It had some fatal mistakes, and some drivers who believe the
direction mistakenly got into the desert in Australia.
Without these kind of disturbing behaviors, people naturally can enjoy the
maps. For example, if you have Apple Maps, you can check "Horse Guard
Parade" in London, UK. I believe the photo is just before the Olympic
Games in 2012. It's under-construction. You can see the view from the
top of Everest on the map apps, and you can see the scenes of Manhattan
on them. You can enjoy seeing your old destinations and talk with people too.
Many people want to be out for
holidays, but they cannot always do. If they have families, they may
spend with them. However, if the person is alone without a partner?
It's
a news feed from "Time Magazine." It has a link to "Pornhub." It's a
blog page. It has a big map. It indicate how people spend time
with/without porn on special days. It's a little interesting.
If you are in the urban jungle, museums may be solutions for your holiday
plan. If you are in New York, there are a lot of museums near the
Central Park. If you are in London, you have some choices of parks such
as Hyde Park and St. James Park. You can stay with Themes river, and the
National Museum too.
For avoiding the dull travel, please figure out a few purposes for your small trips. Also I
recommend you to take some pictures, audio and video clips, and keep
them for your journals.
If you are busy outside everyday, you may use the "maps" such as Google Maps, Bing Maps, Apple Maps, and Nokia Maps(Here Maps) on your phone. Especially, urban explorers such as in New York, losing your ways means losing half a day of your work. However, you phones help you and find a way to get rid of because automatically they can track your locations, and precisely display on your phone.
What kind of information is used by the apps are:
Global Positioning System(GPS Data)
GPS is with the geosynchronous satellites. Originally, these were for military purposes on the coldwar era. They correctly tracked the location of ballistic missiles. After the coldwar ended in the end of 1990s, countries spread the use of the satellites to the commercial uses. Therefore, the information is very precise. This was mainly installed to the automotive navigation system for cars before. Now mostly every smartphone has it. WiFi ID/IP Addresses
If you use the Internet, you never fail to use with IP addresses. IP addresses indicate some important information: who the administrators/users, and where the locations are. When you establish the Internet connection, the information is provided for the network. WiFi ID is also the usable information that indicates your locations. When Google created the street maps, they collected these information with the photos, and this became a huge problem in countries. Now many apps collect these IDs when you use. Users mostly automatically provide these information.
Phone ID
Your phone ID is one of the blind points for detecting your locations. Your phones have some specific ID numbers. One of them is your phone number. When you call, your phone connects near the base station and establish the phone call between your phone and the system. Each base station has each location ID. It can calculate the distance between your location and the base station. Especially, if you are with 3G phones or newer, your phones can track multiple base stations. Therefore, your phone precisely indicate your locations with GPS.
For the reasons, if you are with your smartphones, you have not lost your ways in most of Ecumene where people can live. According to NORAD ( http://www.noradsanta.com/ ), they can track Santa Claus because of these systems.
"Trepak(Russian Dance)"
(From Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite)
Sochi Olympics comes soon. According to media, they had a lot of troubles for the torches, and also media indicates the bribery of high officials. The construction progresses also delayed, but finally, the games open on February 7, 2014. I checked about Sochi on the Internet, but it's difficult to find the information in English. However, using these map apps, we can travel around the resort town Sochi before the Olympic Games come.
