Show HN: We're the fastest-growing barometer network in the world [probably]

It's like when you're learning lisp and everyone tells you that you should use emacs even though you're a vim guy. New paradigm in language and new paradigm in editor make the learning process longer. This is my first android app and my first contribution to open source, so I wanted to keep some aspects of development familiar. I do agree github is a good place for this project to live, and we may migrate there sometime.

Some Google employees have mentioned on the web that the barometers are there to speed up GPS. I understand that GPS is slow when it's alone, but when it has assistance on location guesses it can be much faster. So they can use cell tower triangulation / WiFi spots for your latitude and longitude, and they can get a rough estimate of your altitude through the barometer.

Thanks for that feedback. Writing the post was a difficult mix of trying not to bore my current users while still being accessible to a new audience; I'll see what edits I can make in order to be more clear in the opening. :)