<VV> Directories and other thoughts

[Jay Maechtlen]

On 4/7/2014 1:39 PM, ricebugg at comcast.net wrote:
> I think I have all the paper directories back to what I believe is the first one in 1976.  I generally take the current one with me on road trips.  Paper never crashes.
Yeah - gotta figure out a glovebox for mine - right now, I stash 
everything in the driver's door.
> You want an CORSA app for a SPP!   Fine, gofurit.  First define what content you want available.  Tell us.  You will get the best feedback from this CORSA community.  Then develope the app...I don't know what that involves, nor can I dt, so it is easy for me to say.  But I will object strongly if the info in the directory is made available to any non-CORSA member at anytime for for any reason. If that is the limit to your app idea.
Those would be different apps - I'm not really opposed to a directory 
app - it is actually a great idea.
The tech guide(s) would be more like e-books. They don't need to be 
apps, and don't need to go online. Just another way to have tech info at 
hand.

more to the point - an app that could look through a list of addresses, 
compare that against a current location (or specified location, or 
specified path) and find the addresses that were within some specified 
distance of the location or path - that shouldn't be too awful to create 
- maybe something like that already exists.
An alternate /valuable lookup would be to find however many 'closest' 
addresses, rather than looking a set distance.
The above would require that the list of names/addresses were available 
in electronic form, of course.
If anyone wants to bang some ideas around, shoot me an email.

Btw - I am a Technical Writer, though I haven't done any Mobile stuff yet.
I am certainly not opposed to learning, and generally need a good 
excuse/project to get me to tackle a new technology.
>   
>
> I so like Clark's ads I see in magazines: "Forget the myth, drive the car."  Wish I had thought of it and that CORSA could use it.
I guess we can just quote them...
>   
> Historically Yours,
>                      James Rice
>   
yeah, most of us are in or near the "historical" category.
;-)

My mini-rant still stands - paper doesn't need recharging.
> "everybody"?I don't have a bloody smartphone. Or a tablet. I'd 
> probably have to root my wife's Nook to put a 3rd partyapp on it, and 
> that's not going to happen any time soon.And we have GPS units, but 
> they won't have the CORSA directory in them. Yes, an app could be 
> nice. But if you have a tablet, you can probably use the CORSA website.
-- 
Jay Maechtlen SoCal '61 2-dr modified w/fiberglass skin, transverse 3.8 
Buick V6 TH440T4 trans

---
This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active.
http://www.avast.com