Where I’m up to on the Satpoint app
23 July 2007Well, I finished rev 0.1 of the satpoint app and sent it off to about ten beta testers. Of these, only one fed back.
The app is still very basic, but it now handles the different way that Starband and Hughes display the skew parameter. It also will show the true vs magnetic heading, and has a menu choice to show the magnetic variation.
I’ve been working on the building blocks for the following additional functionality:
- Save the last params, and the Starband/Hughes choice in the saved prefs for next time.
- Accept lat/lon as both decimal degrees and as degrees, minutes and possibly seconds. In other words, all reasonable input formats.
- A zipcode to city to lat/lon database.
- A dropdown list of satellites
- additional dataabases, such as are found on the cginfo collection. Thousand Trails, C2C, AOR, RPI, Elks and Moose Lodges, LTVA sites, could all be offered as quick selections.
I think I’ll be pinging the beta testers and then restarting development over the next few weeks.
This is a “controlled beta” which means that the app is not available for downloading, but will be mailed upon request. The final release will be downloadable.
[Update 2/28/2010: Since I (a) abandoned satellite Internet, (b) abandoned the Treo, and (c) never got feedback, I gave this up.]
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