Thread: Motorsport Performance Application - looking for developer to bring idea to reality
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2008-02-04 , 19:23
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Originally Posted by ertszi View Post
Forget GPS and use WII remote. There is already many projects + maemo garage projects Py Axel Wii (http://pyaxelwii.garage.maemo.org/)

Well you could use gps for accuring and sync location coordinates when you are standing still (GPS accuracy as it best). I believe this could be great feature for maemo mapper as well. N800 users wouldn't even need gps because they could just point out start position at map layout. Thats assuming they know where they are.
Don't think it'd work that well. DJS spoke of the NASCAR system using GPS and accelerometers. The accelerometers get you short time-scale, and the GPS long time-scale. You can't use (consumer-grade, wiimote-ish) accelerometers alone for long time-scales because of the double integration. Basically, your velocity error increases with time, and then your position error increases as the square of time, so you need GPS to correct it.