The iPhone and iPod Touch application BirdSight Australia has just been updated to version 1.8.
The good news is:
- The upgrade keeps all of your previous sightings (so don’t stress about upgrading and losing all of your precious sightings that you haven’t backed up because the process is too tedious);
- The location data entry form allows Google maps (if you have Internet access obviously);
- You can cache Wikipedia articles locally. This sounds like an awesome feature that I must try out.
The bad news is:
- The App now has a 17+ rating (why?);
- The main view of lists of sightings show the same information twice (once in a large black font and the again immediately below in a smaller grey font) EDIT – this behaviour is just for existing sightings made with the previous version – new sightings now show site and date/time on the main page (which is actually good news);
- The apostrophe bug I mentioned earlier is still present;
- If you click “Share Data” in an observation and then click “Cancel” the App crashes completely.
There is so much that could be done to improve this App. I guess the underlying good news is that someone is working on it again. Hopefully it’ll get better. This is still the only App I have ever paid for.