IGetThru
Get ready and get thru the next natural disaster
IGetThru is the first application on the App Store that makes it
easier to have an maintain an emergency kit, and to locate your
relatives and friends during an emergency.
It schedules reminders in your calendar, so that you are notified when any item in your survival kit needs to be renewed. This makes keeping your emergency kit up to date extremely easy.
It also allows you to define meeting points, and share your location
with friends and relatives, so that they can check your position
during, and after, an emergency.
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch.
Requires iPhone OS 4.1 or later.
Sergio Álvarez Díaz
cur3n4@gmail.com
Details
The emergency checklist contains the list of items that you might need in an emergency.
The items are grouped in several categories.
At the top the total number of items still missing from your
emergency kit is listed alongside the 
icon. This
will dissapear as soon as all your items are ready.
The number of items missing is also displayed when the application is closed as a badge on the application icon.
List of items per category
When a category is selected, the list of emergency items belonging
to that category is displayed.
An item can be marked as ready just by clicking on the 
icon. In
the same way, an item that is ready can be marked as pending just by
clicking on the 
icon.
Items that expire (e.g. Bottled drinking water) will contain a
subtitle indicating the next date of renewal (but only if they have
been checked).
Marking items as ready/pending
When an item that expires is marked as ready, a dialog appears confirming that the item is ready, and that a reminder has been added to the calendar.
The reminder will be a recurrent reminder for a specified number of
months.
If the item doesn't expire, then the dialog will only contain the
confirmation that the item is now ready.
If an expirable item was ready and is now marked as pending, all the
calendar reminders will be removed.
Item detail view
When an item is selected, the detail screen will display additional
detail about that item.
It will contain a description that will have additional information
abou the item, and it will also contain information about wether the
item expires or no.
If the item expires there will be information about the periodicity of the renewal, the text of the calendar reminder and when is the next renewal (if the item is ready).
The item can be marked as ready by clicking the icon. In
the same way, an item that is ready can be marked as pending just by
clicking on the icon. (In the
same way the list of items works).
Calendar events
Calendar reminders will be added when expirable items are marked as
ready.
A recurring reminder will be scheduled for the specified amount of
time.
The hour of the day and the possibility of associating an alarm to the reminder can be configured via the IPhone Settings screen and then selecting IGetThru.
Adding/Editing/Deleting items
You might want to add additional items, remove unnecessary ones, add additional information to existing ones, transform a non-expirable item into an expirable item. IGetThru provides an easy way to manage your items.
Items can be deleted by swiping the finder from left to right on top
of the selected element in the list of items screen.
By clicking the 
button on
the same screen, a new item can be added to the selected category.
Items can be edited by selecting the 
button in the item
detail screen. Once you have finished editing click the 
button to save your
changes.
Meeting points
In a major disaster or emergency, Civil Defence Centres are activated by volunteers. The centres are situated in primary schools or other community locations like community centres. It's a good idea to keep a note of your nearest Civil Defence Centre location in your home survival kit.
Besides this, it is good to pick two meeting places, one close to your home and
the other outside your neighbourhood in case you can't return home.
In order to do that, type the address of your meeting point in the
search bar and click Search. A pin (or more) will be dropped in the
specified address. This pin can be dragged and dropped to fine tune the
location of the meeting point.
Once the pin has been properly placed we can click on it, and by
clicking the 
button, make
that location a primary or a secondary meeting point.
Sharing the location
During an emergency,
it will be great if you could check the location of your relatives and
friends, and also if they could check yours.
Broadcasting of your location is by default off, however you can
turn it on by clicking the 
button.
Track your relatives/friends
People who you have authorized to view your location, will get displayed your location in the map with an icon like this: 
(It changes
its color). The location is updated every 10 seconds, and if you click
on the person icon, it will display the last time their location was
broadcast.
Authorizing other people to see your location
You can see the people that is sharing the location with you by
clicking the 
button.
If you want to authorize someone to see your location, you can
select Share my location. This will create an email to the person(s)
that you want to authorize. (See below for how to accept an
authorization request).
People can be deleted from this list by swiping your finger on the
selected person from right to left.
Adding someone to the list of persons you want to display on your
map
When you receive an email from someone (as described above) who
wants to share their location with you, you will have to click in the
link included in the email.
Emergency tips grouped by category
The third tab (Tips) contains specific guidelines for different types
of disasters: earthquake, tsunami, landslides, volcanic eruptions,
influenza pandemics.It also contains two generic Tip categories: one related to potential emergency water supplies (toilet, hot water cylinder, etc) and the other one regarding how to build and/or use toilet emergency facilities.
