[Xastir] Off Topic & Slightly Commercial: Android App

[Curt Mills]

Please delete if you don't care about Android or are offended by an
offer for sale here.  It's SAR and mapping-related though!

I'm in a slight quandary as I want to mention an Android app because
it might be useful to some of you, but it's super-cheap and I'm not
expecting to turn a profit on it...  I wrote it for my SAR group and
they'll have to pay the small fee too, to get new features and
bug-fixes automatically from the Appstore each time I put out a new
release.

I came up with an idea for an Android app during the Oso, WA,
mudslide.  The SAR deputy would come running in with a scrap of paper
containing a coordinate and want it translated "right now!" into
lat/long for the helo crew.  He'd stand there tapping his foot (or was
that my imagination?) until I managed to convert it on a laptop, write
the coordinate down quickly on his scrap of paper and our comms log,
then he'd be off and running down the meadow to the helo.

I wrote "CoordinatesNOW!" with that in mind, to make it the absolute
fastest coordinate conversion from lat/lon or UTM to:  dd dd.dddd, dd
mm.mm, dd mm ss.s, UTM, MGRS, and USNG.  One button press gets you ALL
conversions at once.  I just added a "Get Location" feature that will
snag your location from the device's GPS and immediately convert it as
well.

Because it costs money to become a Google developer, I didn't feel
that I could give it away for free, but I priced it at $0.99 so it
doesn't hurt much.  I only have to sell 35 copies to get my Google
developer's fee back.  ;-)  The development tools were free and I
develop it on a free OS (Linux).  Woohoo!

If it turns out to be lucrative it might encourage me to add datum
translation, or to write other apps for SAR.  So YOU decide whether
this is a commercial advert or not.  I'm just trying to break even on
this one.

Link:  https://sites.google.com/site/sarguydigital/home

NOTE:  Requires Android 3.0 or higher.

-- 
Member of Snohomish County Volunteer SAR (WA)
Curt, WE7U