Wild Swimming App and Wild Gardens App – FAQs
Support email: appsupport@wildthingspublishing.com
How to use this app – Tops tips for using this app:
Photos: click on a thumbnail to open the image full size. Click on the caption to go in to the full Detail view or click on the image to access the navigation bars (including ‘back’ and ‘slide show’). Swipe to move between photos.
Map: Pinch and zoom to navigate. Click on a pin to see the caption and then the arrow to go to the full Detail view. You will need an internet connection for the base map to load, and will need to turn on Location services (in Settings) to entre on your current location.
List: scroll up and down the list and click through to a full Detail view. The List can be sorted and filtered (as can the Photo and Map views) via the Search screen.
Search: Browse the contents by county / area chapters or regional sections. Find a location by postcode or place name search, or via your current location. Locate places by their Features and tags. Find locations by Keywords search of all text in the Detail view (unfortunately this does not include a search of the full chapter text from the book). Chose a Sort order for your results. Or simply chose to view your Favourites only, or to limit to your Favourites. The number of results returned is displayed in the bottom left. You can click the three button icons on the right to go activate the search.
Detail View: Each of the swim locations has its own page and swim number . Click on the image or thumbnails to enlarge, and pinch and zoom to navigate into the image with more detail (useful if you are viewing the maps).
Each swim comes with offline maps in case you have no internet: 1:250,000 road atlas to help you get there and 1:25,000 OS district mapping with Open Street Map footpaths overlaid. The footpath information is open source / user generated and is not always accurate or complete. You can contribute to the Open Street Map project online to improve this service. However click ‘OS map’ at the bottom to be taken to true 1:25,000 Explore and 1:50,000 Landranger mapping via OS on Streetmap.co.uk. We suggest you navigate to these map pages at home while you have wifi and take a screen grab for future offline reference (by clicking the home button on your phone at the same time as the off button).
Scroll down to find more information – including a link to the full chapters from the books. Other information (pubs, campsites, water quality, weather) take you to outside web links. Pinch and zoom the map to see other locations nearby. You can add the location to your favourites using the star icon and share the location using the box with arrow icon (both top left, and bottom). Favourites toggle on and off. Share leads to common share options via Facebook, email and Twitter. The Facebook option will upload a small image to your photo gallery so your friends can see where you are talking about.