[Xastir] Off Topic & Slightly Commercial: Android App

[Fred Erickson]

On Feb 6, 2015 1:28 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.

Hi Curt,

Just installed you app on my Nexus. Great!
You should charge more, especially since you've given so much of your time
for Xastir.

Fred