BCN Rocks 4+

Name: BCN Rocks
Author: Universitat de Barcelona

Universitat de Barcelona

Designed for iPhone

- Free

iPhone Screenshots

Description

Interactive application for learning and introducing Geology from the analysis of the stones used for the construction of buildings in the city of Barcelona, from the Roman Barcino to the globla Barcelona in the XXI.

BCNRocks is an application developed by the Faculty of Geology of the University of Barcelona and the Institute of Earth Sciences “Jaume Almera” of the CSIC. This application forms part of the UB mobility project.

Oct 18, 2016

Version 2.1.0

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

Features and improvements
- Reviewed educational material and all the interactive demos.
- Better accuracy and precision of the user location in the map.
- Several bug fixes and minor functional improvements.
- Generic improvements and design aesthetics assessment.

Buildings and Rocks
- Direct access from the rock data page to the interactive demos.
- Added the ability to review external information with page links.

Explore
- Improved the element discovery and exploring experience.
- Automated routing when starting from the current user location.
- New ordering logic implementation to discover route elements.

Interactive Laboratory
- Learn about rock formation processes with: Cook your rock.
- Review historic route elements from within the demo.
- Redesigned the carbonated rock formation experiment.
- New elements made available in the make your ornamental rock section.