[Xastir] Off Topic & Slightly Commercial: Android App

[scott morris]

No offense taken.  I think it is great.  With all the time you put in on xastir for no money,  $.99 is great.

Scott

Sent from my iPhone

> On Feb 6, 2015, at 5:28 PM, Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
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