I presumed the compass was pointing me at the engine mounted right on the
back and I was in one of those awful seats that face the back instead of the
front. But the distance from the tracked favourite seemed right and it got
me where I wanted on an otherwise unknown bus route. Considering the price
and why I went that way, I reckon the app paid for itself on that one trip.
RobH.
- Original Message -
From: Garth Humphreys ghu...@gmail.com
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 11:55 AM
Subject: Ariadne was: blind square location wrong
Funny you should mention that about Ariadne. I find it works extremely well.
It is in fact the app I was referring to when I mentioned that some apps
wold take their direction from the GPS rather than the compass, at least
when there is sufficient movement to do so. I have a feeling that there is a
toggle in the settings for this.
I use the app to watch out for an approaching bus stop. Whilst the bus is
stationary, the direction to the nearest favourite is correctly derived from
the compass but as soon as the bus has sufficient movement, the direction to
nearest fav is instead taken from the GPS. It is one of the really neat
things about the app.
Our buses have huge glass windows so the GPS is picked up very easily and
the compass is always more accurate then I expect.
Garth
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On 10/07/2012, at 5:59 PM, Rob Harris wrote:
True, and sufficiently far from iron or steel not to be side-tracked by
random magnetic fields. I proved this using Ariadne on a bus, the one
thing
it couldn't tell me was direction.
- Original Message -
From: Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: blind square location wrong
Hi, I believe for the compass of the phone to work properly it has to be
horizontal.
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On 7/9/2012 4:35 PM, Mark Furness wrote:
Unless I hold my iPhone 4 horizontally with the home button toward my
stomach and facing upwards,
it tells me locations are behind me, when they are in front,
3 oclock when they are 9 oclock.
In short opposite from where they really are.
I did have the phone in my front pocket wright side up and upside down.
No difference.
my screen is locked into portrait mode..
What do I need to do, that will allow me to carry my phone in any way
except horizontally?
Mark
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