Earthly

A Different Way To Explore The Earth

Personal Project
Initial Release: In Progress
iOS Team Size: 1

Contributions & Takeaways

Earthly is an application used mostly for geographical purposes. It displays a 3d globe that user’s can interact with. It includes different tile layers to be displayed including weather overlays. It also includes a screen that allows users to look around and see points of interest in the area.
Takeaways

• WhirlyGlobe This is a great SDK I found for creating and managing the globe. The library has an impressive amount of capabilities if you’re willing to do a little ground work. I don’t want to release until I know I got the most out of it.
• Aeris Weather Weather data is pulled from the Aeris Weather API to display the weather globe overlay.
• ARKit Used to place annotations around the user for places of interest within a certain radius. I used the HDAugmentedReality CocoaPod to assist with determining what direction the phone is pointing to place the annotations in the correct position.

Earthly is pretty neat where it is, but I’d like to take it even further. I have some really cool ideas that I’m planning to implement. The code for Earthly is available on GitHub.
Moving Forward: Add more features before release