With Geospike, you can now send a postcard featuring one of your photos anywhere in the world for just $1.99*, right from your iPhone.

Sending postcards while abroad has always been a little tricky. First, you have to find one without a clichéd picture, then you have to negotiate the local post office for stamps and find where on Earth you can post it from. Leave these problems behind and send postcards using your photos, withGeospike’s new postcard system.

Download the Geospike 3.1 update to get started. Postcards are available on Geospike for iPhone, iPad support is coming soon.

*price varies slightly for some locations.

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As seen in the recent newsletter, here’s the Geospike office’s hints on how to get the most out of the app. Is there anything you’d like to add to the list?

#1 No phone data? No worries!
Many people don’t realise but you don’t actually need phone data to spike! Avoid the scourges of data roaming while spiking by sliding that cellular data off. The app will still capture the spike as normal but won’t upload it until you connect to the internet, whether at home or at the hotel. Neat, huh?
 
 
#2 Facebook uploading made simple
Geospike features streamlined Facebook integration, and can automatically post spikes to Facebook if you choose. Simply switch Facebook syndication on when you make a spike. To share every spike you make automatically, tap the ‘remember these settings’ checkbox.
 
#3 Trips are as simple as A-B-C
Right next to that big orange Spike button in the app, there’s a tab for Trips. If you want to start a trip, simply type the name of it in and hit start. But you can also add spikes to a trip after you’ve taken them. Simply hit the small blue button to the left of the ‘Start’ button. You can then choose the time period and the spikes that you wish to include in the trip, as well as its visibility.
 
#4 You can change your profile image
By default, every user is given a spiffy-looking robot. But you are able to change this by setting up a Gravatar using the same email address you used to sign up for Geospike.

Maps are a core part of what Geospike does. Any change to the mapping system provided by iOS affects Geospike, both through the maps embedded in the app, and the functionality of the official Maps app which Geospike can send locations to.

Before you update to iOS 6 (which Geospike fully supports), you may wish to research the significant map-related changes introduced in iOS 6 so as to make an informed decision on whether you want to update to this new system, and get those changes. Once you update, you can’t go back.

Possible starting points for your research:

1. NY Times: Apple’s iPhone Update Leaves Out Google’s Maps
2. BBC News: New Apple maps app under fire from users
3. Google Search: ios6 map changes

Geospike plans to support iOS 5.0+ for the indefinite future.

Geospike 2.2 has been released today, adding support for the iPhone5′s taller screen, and fixing some issues for iOS 6.

Geospike looks gorgeous on the iPhone5, check out some screen shots of it running on the larger screen:

Gallery View on iPhone 5

Feed View on iPhone 5

Spike View on iPhone 5

Trip View on iPhone 5

iOS 4.x

A truly inspiring video about travel and making it count. Whether you’re doing something crazy-awesome like this, or just exploring your own town, we think Geospike is the perfect app for capturing it all.

We have a big update in store for you today for Geospike iOS. Here are some of the improvements:

1. Faster first spike – less delay between you hitting the ‘new spike’ button, and the camera appearing (props to @spiffeah for insisting we improve this)
2. Faster photo saving – no more waiting for your photos to save, now they save almost as fast as you can add them
3. Better background processing – if you hit the home screen, your photos will continue to save
4. More responsive photo viewer – when you view a photo in the photo viewer it will now start downloading immediately. We also added a progress bar so you know what’s happening.
5. Autosave – if you’re creating a spike, and the app is forced to close (e.g. your battery goes flat, iOS kills it, or through programmer error), your draft will be recovered when you next open the app.

Oh, and we added the ability for you to ‘Like’ spikes, which both tells the author of your feelings, and means you can easily find the spike again later (a bit like a bookmark).

So this update makes Geospike faster, strong and better than ever before.  We think you’ll like it too!

Cheers,
@divzero & @Paludis  (Team Geospike, iOS Division).

A bunch of some Geospike SXSW press:

Pulsar Advertising wrote:

Organizing and Documenting Your Social World – The idea of organizing your life and various communities online was also a hot trend this year with companies like LifeDots, Savvy Card, Clipix, Hibe, IJustShared, and Qubeey. This trend also includes a variety of photo applications including: Instagram, Glomper, and Geospike.

CC Pearce‘s & Ed Ward had some interesting notes. We got a video on SXSW Videos & look for us in Moth To Flame’s Video

Friday 9, March 2012 from Austin, TX at 12:00 Geospike launched on iOS.