Finding belltowers with the Nokia N900

A screencast of Belltower, a location-aware app for the Nokia N900 which can find nearby belltowers hung for full-circle change ringing. The resolution on YouTube doesn't really do the N900's screen justice. The database is Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. http://belltower.garage.maemo.org

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• belltower
• nokia
• n900
• ringing
• changeringing
• bellringing
• bells

[tochistube]

poor UI design

[marnanel]

Thanks for your feedback. Do you have any specific areas where you think the UI can be improved, or any suggestions as to how it could be better?

[f3aroffours]

Oooh fun - presumably this queries the Dove database?

[marnanel]

Yes: a local copy of it.

[shahminhajuddin]

wtf??

[marnanel]

It's a program for the N900 which finds nearby belltowers. I think it demonstrates the platform rather nicely.

[LinuxRaymaker]

Brilliant. At last someone posting something from real life. Rather than the standard my phone's better than your phone bullshit.

[shahminhajuddin]

???

[marnanel]

When you find one-- well, when a bellringer finds one-- they ring the bells! You see where all the towers have a day of the week after their name? That's practice night, and that's the night ringers can go and ring the bells. Once a ringer has learned to control a bell properly, there's a vast amount of patterns called "methods" in which the bells can be rung. And people have competitions, and ringing tours... Wikipedia has more info under "Change ringing".

[marnanel]

Someone said (and I accidentally hit remove instead of reply):

looks like a neat program, but i fail to see the use.

Belltowers? Why do you wan`t to find them? What are you going to do when you find one? I`m lost...