WeatherFix™ by Eelios

One of the main functional attributes of WxFix Standard version is the ability to drop a pin on the map anywhere you want, save it as a favorite, and get the weather forecast to that exact location whenever you want. This is a pretty long and detailed explanation, but if you’re more of a visual person, check out any of the YouTube videos on this site becuase they all show graphically how to drop a pin and save it as a favorite. Otherwise, if you want to take a few minutes and read about how to do it, well, read on…

So, just how do you do this pin thing? First off, dropping a pin is done from the “Map” screen. There is a lot going on with this screen, so please stay with us here…. While there are a few steps to go through, it’s really not complicated once you’ve tried it out once or twice.

Note: When the map screen first opens up it is defaulted to your current location. You’ll see a blue dot with a pulsing ring around it indicating your current location. It may or may not be on your exact spot, depending on your cell signal and how accurate of a GPS coordinate the cell network is giving you. If you’re outside you’ll generally get better locational accuracy than if you’re inside. For iPod touch users, locational accuracy (or getting your location at all) is entirely a function of you wifi network.

When you go to the map screen you have to option of searching for a location, either by place name, address, or lat/lon (if you have the coordinates). To do this, touch the search bar at the top of the screen, and the keyboard will pop up from the bottom. Type in a street address, place name or lat/lon of the location you want to search for in the search bar, and hit “Send”. The map should “fly” over to the location of the address or place you typed. (If nothing happens or the search comes up blank, try typing more info, like adding a zip code, or a more detailed place name.)

Once the map has flown over to the general area of your selected location either double tap or expand the screen with you thumb/forefinger to zoom in closer on the map until you get the level of detail you want. (It may take a few seconds between each double tap or finger expansion for new map tiles to load). Now, touch the “action key” at the top right corner of the screen (this looks like a box with an arrow coming out of it). You will see a menu pop up from the bottom. From this menu you can select “Drop Pin” and/or change the map display from the street map default setting to “Satellite” or “Hybrid.” Hybrid provides the most map detail – a satellite view with a street map overlay. Select whatever view you prefer, wait a few second for the map tiles to show up, then select “Drop Pin”.

When you touch “Drop Pin” a pin will drop onto the center of the map display. To move the pin exactly to where you want it, touch the pin for about 1 second (you’ll see it jump slightly), then with your finger drag it over to the exact spot you want to drop it, and release your finger. To replace the pin, touch “Replace Pin”.

Once the pin is right where you want it, you can save it as a favorite. But first, you may want to take a screen capture of the map with your pin on the location you’re about to save. To do this, press the iPhone sleep button (on top of the device) and Home button (round button of the screen face at the bottom) simultaneously… voila, a beautiful screen capture of your pin location will be saved in the photo library.

Now, touch the arrow on the right side of the pin location weather summary bar… this is the bar situated right above the pin you just dropped that shows the location address and a current weather icon… the white inside a blue circle arrow is on the right side of the bar. Touch this and you will go the “Now” screen showing you the current weather for that location.

Now touch the Action Key on the top right of the screen, and a menu pops up from the bottom with several choices: Add to Favorites, Share via Email, and Refresh.

Select “Add to Favorites”. This will take you to the favorites customization screen. First, touch the square in the upper left corner of the screen (the one showing the WxFix icon). A menu pops up from the button, in which you can select “Take Photo” or “Choose Existing Photo.” Remember that screen shot you just took? Select “Choose Existing Photo”, and this takes you to your photo library. Find the screen shot you just took – it will probably be at the very bottom of your photo library – and either select that, or some other photo you want to associate with the location you are about to save. Select “Choose”, and the photo (or screen shot) will be saved into that square tile.

Next, touch the dialogue box and type in what you want to call your new favorite location… “Home”, “Work”, “Golf”, “Aunt Edna”… whatever… then select “Add”.

Congratulations! You’ve dropped a pin on the exact location you wanted and saved it as a favorite. You can now access this favorite via the Favorites screen, by touching the “Favorites” tile on the bottom of the WxFix display.

Okay, so this is a very detailed explanation on how to perform this function and it sounds complicated. But once you’ve done it a time or two, it’ll be second nature and much quicker than you might think. Hope this tip helps… Happy Pin Dropping!