Place
Place Summary
Place is a ad-supported, with in-app purchases Android app in Tools by Chanaka Alahakoon. Released in Sep 2019 (6 years ago). It has about 120.1K+ installs Based on AppGoblin estimates, it reaches roughly 7.1K monthly active users and generates around $<10K monthly revenue (69% IAP / 31% ads). Store metadata: updated Oct 19, 2025.
Recent activity: 4.1K installs this week (7.5K over 4 weeks) showing exceptional growth View trends →
Store info: Last updated on Google Play on Oct 19, 2025 .
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App Description
A free hand held GPS replacement tool for your coordinate transformation needs!
Free world Coordinate Converter with local grid support!
Product Brochure: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C9f6LiGvqZ5nEJge9Dr-OcR1lguLK0Ap/view?usp=sharing
A tool that will evolve continually in to an inexpensive, full fledged hand held GPS unit replacement software to be used in the field. It supports many Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS) to get local grid values from Latitude and longitude it receives from your mobile device sensor.
It is a tool that can help surveyors, military, hikers and folks in other engineering domains!
If your CRS is not available, email EPSG number to the developer...
e-mail: chanakasat@gmail.com
Fun facts: This tool can even be used for games like treasure hunt (scavenger hunt) or navigate through an unknown territory like a jungle offline!
Basic Functions:
- Free alternative to handheld GPS units
- Coordinate transformation with many local grid support
- Ability to save waypoints and tracks (GPS tracker)
- Offline navigation with an arrow pointing to the correct direction
- Back-tracking with navigation (You will never get lost in a jungle)
- Measure distance between selected places using local grid parameters
- Measure area using local grid parameters
- Parameter customization ability (For advanced users)
- Custom map support in offline mode
- On the fly conversion of any saved point to any coordinate reference system
- View saved tracks and places in Google or custom Maps
- Single and Bulk coordinate conversion
- Saved coordinate export support (CSV, GPX and KML format)
- Supports Google Drive as storage making sharing easy
- Coordinates can be exported to Google drive making sharing easy
- Built in Compass (At the moment uses device hardware sensor if available)
Currently supported projections
- Transverse Mercator (tmrec)
- Lambert Conformal Conic (lcc)
- Cassini (cass)
- Albers Equal Area (aea)
Transformation algorithm
Place algorithm is based on Helmert transformation and it utilizes 7 parameter Coordinate Frame Rotation (CFR) method.
Hope this tool will help you in some way...
Peace!