Am 20.10.2010 15:23, schrieb Henri Sivonen:
>>> now that device orientation, geolocation, camera etc. have been
>>> spec'ed:
>>> Is there any intent to provide an API for pressure sensors?
>>>
>>> This might well be the next hip feature in smartphones ...
>>
>> Note that differential pressure measurements from nearby locations can
>> be better at determining
>> altitude differences than GPS, plus, they work indoors.
> 
> Are there other use cases apart from guessing the altitude? 

A browser-based dive computer ;-)

And maybe something determining the weather.


> It figuring out the device altitude is the use case, shouldn't the API expose 
> the altitude and allow the altitude to be computed by the browser or by the 
> operating system from a pressure sensor, from GPS or both?
> 


Agreed, maybe providing some meta-information. But you probably do want
the raw data in any case.

Jens

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