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I don’t know how difficult this would be to implement, but it came to me when I was thinking about my vacation in the backwoods of Eastern Oregon. I found about four places within hiking distance of my campsite (usually on top of surrounding hills) where I got Edge signal and was therefore able to create a wall. It was great fun leaving those messages, and I even left a couple pointing out interesting things in the area.

However, the 3G has the capability of locating itself through GPS without data signal. It would be fun if we could create a wall at a location without signal, but communication with the server about this wall could be deferred until we actually got signal. This way, someone who is at a point (say, on top of a hill) within the 1000 meter range could read messages that are pinned to the actual location rather than just get directions from a message pinned to the top of the hill.

Uh… let me give an example. Let’s say I find a cave or a cool rock or something in a remote valley, and post a wall about it. However, I don’t have signal, so the program stores the wall, message, and location, and then posts the wall the next time I open Graffitio it and have signal. So the next time a person is standing on a ridge with signal overlooking the valley (with an iPhone), they can see the wall when they are in range, and are able to use the cool distance field in rel3 to tell how far away the wall is.

Am I making any sense?

Also, this feature could allow people to post walls in little towns with no or intermittent signal that might get a cell tower at a future date. I have a lot of family who live in towns like that.

Anyway, I just thought I’d chime in. Keep up the good work!

I find leaving invisible messages everywhere to be much more entertaining than any iPhone game I’ve tried. I even left a few messages in the backwoods of Eastern Oregon during my vacation last week. I wonder if anyone will ever find them…

Thanks for making a great app!

They pulled a game from the store a few days ago because it had a feature that showed you when your friends were playing it, but the way it did that was, it uploaded your entire contact list to their servers.

Apple didn’t like that they didn’t disclose that.

I think it was called Aurora Feint or something - not my cup of tea anyway.

The point is, it somehow pass the initial test and made it into the store, only to be pulled later - perhaps someone complained to Apple, or maybe they periodically review apps that are already released.