Thread: Digital compass? maybe with maemo mapper?
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Master of Gizmo is offline Master of Gizmo
2008-11-01 , 20:40
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Originally Posted by Nelson L. Squeeko View Post
GPXView has a compass. Its set to point the compass towards a specific geocache/position, but to get compass functionality you could set your geocache to be North. On downside is that you need to be moving for the GPS to determine your orientation.
That's not the same. The GPS only knows the direction if you are moving as it assumes you are facing the direction you are moving. And this only works if you are faster then the gps accuracy is. So this doesn't work if moving slowly or standing still.

I'd be in fact very interested in adding support for such a sensor to gpxview so the compass view also works when standing still. Anyone willing to donate such a sensor?

MoG