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Originally Posted by efekt View Post
And how would it work if you can't see the sun (cloudy day, or even night time)?
I have a better idea for you, and it doesn't require any device what-so-ever - if you're outside, you may sometimes notice that the sun rises from the east and sets in the west, so if its not exactly the middle of the day (12:00), you should be able to know roughly which direction is the east or west respectively, thus finding the north
There is another way of finding out, which is a bit more accurate which I was taught during my military service, but I'm afraid its not that easy to explain in words
Yeah, it wouldn't work well when there are clouds blocking sky objects. I was thinking the user can point to a known object in the area and from that the app would look up the direction information.

I know how to roughly find out where E and W are but the idea was to somehow have the phone know that too so that apps could have access to that information.