[Hidden-tech] App software...

[Jeff Brand]

There are advantages to a platform-native app, namely a presence in the 
app store and improved usability and overall performance. That said, a 
mobile web version can often quite useable and will let you prototype 
the design and functionality, usually for a fraction of the cost.

Adobe's PhoneGap offers a compromise between the two that many find 
agreeable.


On 8/29/2014 9:22 AM, Rich Roth wrote:
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> Do you really need an 'app' or is what you need really a good mobile web site with a map.
> Your description seems to be of 2 different functions:
>       1) restaurants providing their used cooking oil
>               of use to people making biodiesel
>       2) biodiesel stations
>               of use to people who want biodiesel for their motor vehicle
>
> And what region do you want to map ?
>
> Once you have those databases - how big is #2 anyway ? even #1 is not that big for the
> local region
>
> A good mapping display is just a nice bit of database driven javascript,
> for example here is a map of all creative economy business in Franklin county:
>           http://www.fosteringartandculture.org/creativeground/
>
> All that is need to be useful as a mobile web page is adding the javascript to read the
> current location and zoom the map.
>
> So it seems what you need 1st is a spec for exactly what you need.
> Email be directly if you want to discuss that more
>
> Rich
>
> On 8/28/2014 2:44 PM, Lynn Benander wrote:
>> We are also interested in advice on app software.
>> We'd like to have a smartphone app that can show you a map of nearby
>> biodiesel stations and restaurants providing their used cooking oil to
>> make it.  Any recommendations?
>> Lynn Benander
>> Co-op Power
>> lynn at cooppower.coop
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