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 <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
