{"id":7589,"date":"2014-05-16T13:39:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T17:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phillyhistory.wpengine.com\/?p=7589"},"modified":"2014-05-16T13:39:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T17:39:44","slug":"phillyhistory-now-available-on-field-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/2014\/05\/phillyhistory-now-available-on-field-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"PhillyHistory Now Available on Field Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2014_05_16_FieldTripApp_PhillyHistory\"<\/a>We’re excited to announce that select materials from\u00a0Philly<\/em>History will now be accessible from your smartphone through the Field Trip app<\/a> developed by NianticLabs at Google. Field Trip is designed to help you find and explore interesting locations in the world. With information on historical places and events, architecture, art and museums, and much more, Field Trip serves as a guide to the hidden history and culture all around us.<\/p>\n

Want to learn more about the many historical events that have occurred in Philadelphia?\u00a0 Curious about the history of the buildings and places that you walk by every day? The tens of thousands of images on Philly<\/em>History.org have long provided a view into the city’s past with the stories behind the images told through posts on the\u00a0Philly<\/em>History Blog<\/a>. The Field Trip app includes selected images and articles from the Philly<\/em>History Blog that are connected to specific locations throughout the city. If you have the Field Trip app on your phone, you can read content from the Philly<\/em>History Blog about the history of locations near you. If you have notifications and location services turned on, you’ll even receive alerts when you pass a building or intersection connected to a story on\u00a0Philly<\/em>History.<\/p>\n

The Field Trip app is available for both iPhones<\/a> and Android devices<\/a> at no cost. After downloading the app, users can select from several fields of interest and view stories and images connected to that topic by clicking on the markers on the map. Philly<\/em>History falls under the “Historic Places & Events” category which are shown as pale orange square markers on the map. Click on a marker to see an overview of the story of that location and then click the top bar to view the full article and images. If you’d like to read more from the Philly<\/em>History Blog, click the “Full Article” button at the bottom of the page to view more info on the blog or click “PhillyHistory” to visit the website.<\/p>\n

We hope you’ll explore Philly<\/em>History on the Field Trip app and discover the amazing history surrounding us here in Philadelphia!<\/p>\n

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We’re excited to announce that select materials from\u00a0PhillyHistory will now be accessible from your smartphone through the Field Trip app developed by NianticLabs at Google. Field Trip is designed to help you find and explore interesting locations in the world. With information on historical places and events, architecture, art and museums, and much more, Field […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.phillyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}