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
