![]() But how, you might ask yourself? Do I need to be a GIS expert to incorporate tools into a water oriented decision making plan? Not at all as the beauty of GIS is to adapt it to your needs and your workflow. Planners, consultants and decision makers recognize the spatial significance of resource management at a water body scale. Different apps and tools are being developed and upgraded constantly so keeping track of them is quite a challenge. So what would be some of the key values when talking about GIS for evaluating watershed conditions and environmental processes affecting them? Technology, Cloud and Collaboration come to mind. It is highly unlikely that we will ever be 100% sure in terms of preventing ‘Mother Nature’s rage’, but we do have tools to help with the side effects of these events. With the recent increase in frequency of flooding events (followed by the usual ‘I haven’t seen this in the past hundred years’ comment), a GIS-related observation came to mind. But at the end, these issues will be fixed with time and the project is simply cool and we will definitely support it. The user interface needs significant improvements, some rules on building and buying extra inventory are not clear and the servers must stop crushing. Definitely the game requires a lot of polishing. It can be also really annoying, especially when some features don’t work, or when you’re in a new location you would like to claim but there is a server error and you can’t log in. COOL OR NOT COOL?Īfter playing GPS Tycoon for some time I must say that it’s really addictive. Today there are a few hundreds of active users world-wide, so it’s not that easy meet the land of other people. When you claim their land, when you leave them messages. It gives most fun when you start to interact with other players. ![]() What’s cool is that there is a leaderboard where you can check what’s the status of all players globally, so in a way you fight locally to buy as much land and possible but at the same time you compete globally for the best score. And this is where we come to the key point of the game. To buy land you need to physically be in a location (or your phone needs to think that you are at the location), so it means that in order to win you should buy a land wherever you go. The land you own generates money, which you can reinvest in buying a new land, improving it or protecting your land from other players who may want to claim your territory. Once your position is fixed on a grid cell you can buy it (you get $100 as a starting package). The map has been divided into a grid of around 400×400 meters. Once you log in to the game (what’s amazing you don’t need to do it via Facebook ) you’ll see Google Map with your location. It’s a combination of Warcraft, Civilization, and Risk but on a real-world map of your neighbourhood. The game is not really beautiful, the interface is rough, some functions doesn’t work properly and sometimes the servers are down but somehow once you start to play it you can’t stop it. They were never graphically impressive but they had a terrific gameplay experience.Īnd that is the case of GPS Tycoon – the location-based game for Android which I came across few weeks ago. ![]() On the other hand I was always coming back with pleasure to old computer games from my childhood. I was pretty sure that my attitude towards these kind of gaming will always stay ambivalent. Over the years I’ve been testing several location-based mobile games but somehow zombie-themed apps like Please Stay Calm or QONQR were never my thing.
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