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Map it; draw each stride out for you to see. Look at the work of art you’ve created - just by traveling. By knowing you cannot be contained.\n\nJoin Us. Embrace a unique way of experiencing your adventures! Explore, visit and memorize your travels on the world map. Unfog the world and make your life more brilliant today!\n\n● VISUALIZE & MEMORIZE EVERYWHERE YOU’VE BEEN\n\nFog of World is a real-life, travel and exploring game where you need to remove the fog on the map by exploring the world. It's a fantastic way to visualize everywhere you have been in your entire life or to discover places around you!\n\n● EXQUISITE MAPPING \n\nBeautiful world maps are available at a glance. Explore the places near your location, find the spot to go and hit record. Your trip is then recorded, mapped and kept on your cloud storage forever. Start the travel explore the game, while memorizing the places you visit in a neat way. Grow your level and increase your visit percentages for every continent. Have fun exploring the world!\n\n● CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED\n\n• Featured by Apple as App of the Day in 137 countries\n• This Fog of World App Might Be the Funniest App I’ve Seen in a Long Time - GIZMODO\n• We don't remember the last time we've run into an app that is as interesting as Fog of World - Business Insider\n• Fog of World turns moving through your city and your world into a game of exploration - AppStorm\n• Original worldwide location tracking game that will make you want to explore every street in your city and far wider - LITTLE APP REVIEW\n• Fog of World uses the fog of war from video games to gamify traveling - The Awesomer\n• Was holding the 1st position for top stories on Hacker News!\n\n● FEATURES\n\n• Records your tracks and maps travel (even when the app running in the background).\n• Shows everywhere you have been on the map at the same time with its advanced trip and travel mapping.\n• Analyses your statistics around the world, around every continent, and around every country and territory.\n• Lots of badges to motivate you to explore more around the world.\n• Support for multiple databases and securing data with snapshots for various tracking purposes.\n• Support for Importing tracks through GPX or KML files.\n• Support for syncing your data with iCloud, Dropbox and OneDrive.\n• Super high-accuracy offline reverse geocoding database that provides the most accurate statistics.\n• Support for Siri shortcuts and personalized Siri phrases.\n\n● PRIVACY POLICY\n\nIn short, we do not collect any of your exploration data. Your data will be uploaded when you sync them with your cloud storages, but only you have access to them. We don't.\n\n● Why Fog of World?\n\n• Fog of World is the first app that brings the fog of war idea into the real world map back in 2012 and provides free updates since then.\n• Fog of World remains the best app to render the fog overlay and is the only app that shows you high-resolution tracks. Don't believe it? Download the copycat apps and compare the results with Fog of World screenshots.\n• There is no user account of Fog of World. All of your data are saved in your device. You have 100% privacy.\n• The database is designed to use as little storage as possible while providing high performance.\n• Fog of World is the only app that truly works around the world since China uses the GCJ-02 coordinate system due to political reasons. Other copycats either work correctly in China or the rest of the world, but not both.\n\n\nMap your trips, memorize and start your world adventure with Fog of World. It’s like having world atlas and yourself to explore and conquer it.\n\nDownload the ultimate explore game and places I've been travel tracker now!\n\nLike us on Facebook:\nhttps://www.facebook.com/OllixIO/\n\nFollow us on Twitter:\nhttps://twitter.com/OllixIO\n\nNote:\nContinued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.","facts":{"developer_id":374932200,"developer_url":"https://fogofworld.app","first_released":"2012-09-18T13:31:51Z","support_url":null,"privacy_url":null,"website_url":null,"app_version":"3.8.1","release_notes":"EXPLORE DIVISIONS IN YOUR PASSPORT!\n\nSee states, provinces, and more in your Passport! To see your division rankings, upgrade your database format in Settings > Upgrade Databases. 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