Naw, I did it for our SAR group, but needed a way to get auto-updates to them, so went to the Google Play and the Amazon Appstore for the solution to that. Just trying to get my fee back from Google by charging a minimum amount. The app doesn't do that much: Unix strategy, do one thing and do it well...
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Fred Erickson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 6, 2015 1:28 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. > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir -- Curt, WE7U _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
