On 05/11/2014 07:08 AM, joerg Reisenweber wrote: > On Sat 10 May 2014 11:57:30 Pascal Gosselin wrote: >> calibrate the compass via GPS track by an easy calibration or >> self-calibration method > > GPS doesn't offer any data to calibrate magnetometer from. > magnetometer aka compass is about orientation of device, GPS is > about position and movement vector. They are 100% unrelated.
In a static situation this is correct, but while moving it is possible to get the current heading from GPS. Jake _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community