Compass for SPV C550

[Guest azamsaghir]

Can somebody please suggest a compass application?

I have a GPS receiver but need an exact direction pointer. Hopefully, something exists out there preferably freeware.

Thanks

Azam

[Guest jonc]

Can somebody please suggest a compass application?

I have a GPS receiver but need an exact direction pointer. Hopefully, something exists out there preferably freeware.

Thanks

Azam

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I would have thought that unless your GPS reciever has a built in compass, then you will be out of luck. How would your phone know which way you are pointing?

jonc

[Guest mitman]

some route finding software will tell you which direction you are travelling but that only works whilst in motion. I don't know of any app that can show a compass direction whilst stationary.

[Guest azamsaghir]

Yes indeed I actually had the idea when I came across the compass feature in TomTom 5 but as you say it will only give you a pointer whilst on the move.

Thanks for the replies.

Rgds

Azam

[Guest Marcos_]

I have a compass application for my nokia 6230. It works by storing a database of where north should be in relation to the direction of the sun and the current time. (sine all those factors are consistent.

So it asks you what hemisphere you are in, then if you are in daylight savings time, and then it tells you to life the phone on a flat surface with the top pointing towards the sun and it draws a cross on the screen with an N pointing to where north should be.

[Guest azamsaghir]

I have a compass application for my nokia 6230. It works by storing a database of where north should be in relation to the direction of the sun and the current time. (sine all those factors are consistent.

So it asks you what hemisphere you are in, then if you are in daylight savings time, and then it tells you to life the phone on a flat surface with the top pointing towards the sun and it draws a cross on the screen with an N pointing to where north should be.

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Sounds great Marcos_

Pity something like that has not been produced for Smartphones.

Thanks

Azam

[Guest jonc]

Sounds great Marcos_

Pity something like that has not been produced for Smartphones.

Thanks

Azam

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Hehe, ok, here goes. Presuming you are in the Northern Hemisphere (which I imagine most people reading this will be) and using the correct local time (ie without daylight savings), point the hour hand of your watch directly at the sun (while holding horizontal).

Bisect (split into two equal parts) the angle between the hour hand and the 12 o'clock position, and that's (edit) South.

jonc

Edited September 25, 2005 by jonc

[Guest phaedra]

hi :o

if you are in the northern hemisphere and you point the hour hand of your analog watch at the sun, SOUTH is halfway between it (the hour hand) and the 12. :lol:

eg at noon the hour hand and 12 coincide and both are pointing south :(

Edited September 25, 2005 by phaedra

[Guest jonc]

hi  :o

if you are in the northern hemisphere and you point the hour hand of your analog watch at the sun, SOUTH is halfway between it (the hour hand) and the sun.  :lol:

eg at noon the hour hand and 12 coincide and both are pointing south  :(

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If you point the hour hand at the sun, then "halfway" between it and the sun is always going to be where the sun is.....

But he is right, halfway between the hour hand and the 12 o'clock position is south.

jonc