Points of Interest: RI

Rhode Island is the smallest state in the country and one of the most densely packed with things worth seeing. POI Rhode Island turns all of it into a map worth completing. Open the app and 133 hand-picked places sit on the map as grey, unfilled markers. You can tap any one to see what it is and get directions — but you can't earn it from your couch. Get physically close, and it snaps into full colour. That's the whole idea. DISCOVERY THAT HAPPENS ON ITS OWN You don't have to check in, scan anything, or even open the app. Grant location access and places reveal themselves as you travel — on a Sunday drive down Ocean Road, on a detour through Wickford, on the ferry to Block Island. Every place has its own range, sized to what it actually is: a 464-acre state park announces itself from a quarter-mile out, while a Newport row house waits until you're on the sidewalk. GPS can't always…