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Swim Guide 2.0 for iPhone is here!

Posted: April 21, 2012 at 10:11 am

If you haven’t already updated Swim Guide on your iPhone, you should check the App Store for your free update.

Swim Guide 2.0 includes an updated, sleek interface that makes the app even easier to navigate. With the new navigation menu, you can now find a beach or report pollution from anywhere in the app.

Beach 2.0 Panoramio

Other upgrades:

Panoramio integration shows up to 20 photos of every beach
New pollution reporting form lets you add photos to your pollution reports
Date/time stamp tells you when a beach status was last updated
Tap a beach status for more information
New pie charts show the historical status of each beach when you tap on a beach status
New source section tells you who samples at each beach and what water quality standards apply
Map view now lets you see a beach location without launching Google Maps
New info section tells you more about Waterkeeper Alliance members and the Swim Guide sponsors

The new version is amazing and offers a ton of features that users have been asking for. Android Version is coming next.

Oh, and no matter what version of Swim Guide you’re running, be sure to check out the Pacific and Gulf Coast areas. California beaches are coming on line right now, and we’ve just added our first beaches in Alabama. Enjoy!

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	Green means the beach’s most recent test results met relevant water quality standards.

	Red means the beach’s most recent test results failed to meet water quality standards.

	Grey means water quality information for the beach is too old (more than 7 days old) to be considered current, or that info is unavailable, or unreliable.

	Green means the beach passed water quality tests 95% of the time or more.

	Yellow means the beach passed water quality tests 60-95% of the time.

	Red means the beach failed water quality tests 40% of the time or more.

	This means that this site has been issued a Blue Flag status for the current swimming season. This status does not indicate current water quality.

	Red means the water at the site has water quality issues or there is an emergency.

	Grey means there is no current water quality information, the beach is under construction, there has been an event that has rendered water quality information unreliable or unavailable.