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 www.iblindtech.com Follow me on twitter @BlindTechMusing 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. > > -- > Raul A. Gallegos > My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. --Rodney Dangerfield > Home Page: http://raulgallegos.com > Twitter: https://twitter.com/rau47 > Facebook: http://facebook.com/rgallegos74 > > > 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 >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
