@trueguidance... Yeah I don't know but it seems the mods combined my series of posts on Saturday and it all now looks like a bunch of mess but you got my points and that's great. I was so enthused that Saturday when I drove out on Saturday I snapped pics of all my local gas stations prices (for those who had them, which is surprising how many don't). When I got home I punched in the prices for all of them so now my city is all perty with prices... While using the app again to accomplish this, I thought of a few more things which I'd like to share if you don't mind. I can't help it I'm a developer... and I love a functional and feature rich user experiences. So here goes:
1. Putting the date of the last update (timestamp and/or date) for a given gas station's prices. This is currently available in the trending/historical data, but is not very intuitive. I wanna see it onscreen before I head out. Confidence that the data is certified 'fresh'! No last year prices
2. Prices should expire after a month or so if they're not updated much to my previous point to ensure a certain level of accuracy. Prices are no good if they're old. People need accurate data to make correct decisions if that's what the app's about (mostly anyways)
3. Why stop at mobile app? Why not create a web app that offers similar features? That way we could update both via the webpage or app. View/Search webpage or app. Increases the community for those who do not own an android device - the ultimate cross platform experience!
4. This one's a bit out there (but I'm sure there's an API out there somewhere to accomplish this so don't limit yourselves, I believe in you ). The prices are usually stacked in a particular order i.e. regular then premium then diesel (I've observed and all boards are setup in that particular standard as far as I see anyways) . What if we were able to take a pic of that price board and the image was then analyzed by the app, text interpreted and pulled and the GPS location captured and the app would auto-update (obviously after a bit of confirmation of your prices gas station etc etc.)... So easy! I would definitely do that every time. Especially if there were other persons in the car #showoff