new iPhone and paperless caching
Mathias Körber
paperless caching machine,
A few Ifs:
The GPS unit needs to be able accept coordinate input
waypoint projection would be nice (tough I daresay one should
be able to do that in a separate app if not provided onboard)
Has anyone heard of the GPS (and map) capability of the new iphone yet?
MK
Yeah - certainly sounds exciting, doesn't it!? I am fingers crossed that
the Opensource road Maps for NZ will be compatible!
MK
MK
"Mathias Körber" <mat...@koerber.org> wrote in message
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> LOTS more with loads of links at
> http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/06/portable-nav-da.html
Hate to follow up my own post, but there's just so much out there on
www about this here's a few another about it
http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/WWDC%3A_Location-Aware_iPhone_Tools_Set_to_Flood_the_We
or http://tinyurl.com/5tcuw8 when it wraps - or if you want to see
nearly 1000 stories about how the press are seeing this take a look at
http://news.google.co.uk/nwshp?tab=wn&ncl=1220873717&hl=en&topic=t
I'm like the rest of the GPS world in that I like a GPS not a SatNav.
I get the idea about this is that everyone's so excited at the
prospect of having all the technology in just one device... We as
proper GPS users and the proper GPS manufacturers don't have a problem
with this, it's the SatNav producers that now have to start worrying/
changing...
There are such massive and rapid advances in electronics/technology
that it is going to keep going much more rapidly than any of us
believe...
The other thing is that memory is becoming massively cheaper and
equally massively bigger so we're going to see so much more to come !
nemo
I don't know anything about the iPhone, but I know that you don't
really need waypoint projection. If you are at point X and want to go
YYY feet in the direction ZZZ degrees, you just set point X as your
GOTO point and then go in the direction ZZZ-180 (or ZZZ+180) degrees
for YYY feet. I find this is typically more accurate than an actual
projection because most of the time a projection function asks for the
distance in miles!
Just a little trick to help you get the most out of any GPS.
Rick
nemo
> Crosspost from gps.garmin:
>
>
> news:6b6ashF...@mid.individual.net...
>
> > looks like the newly introduced iPhone 2.0 would make an awesome paperless
> > caching machine,
>
> > A few Ifs:
> > The GPS unit needs to be able accept coordinate input
> > waypoint projection would be nice (tough I daresay one should
> > be able to do that in a separate app if not provided onboard)
>
> > Has anyone heard of the GPS (and map) capability of the new iphone yet?>
> > LOTS more with loads of links at
> >http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/06/portable-nav-da.html
>
> Hate to follow up my own post, but there's just so much out there on
> orhttp://tinyurl.com/5tcuw8when it wraps - or if you want to see
> nearly 1000 stories about how the press are seeing this take a look athttp://news.google.co.uk/nwshp?tab=wn&ncl=1220873717&hl=en&topic=t
>
> I'm like the rest of the GPS world in that I like a GPS not a SatNav.
What is a GPS compared to a SatNav? Are you talking about a GPS like
a hand held unit for sport use compared to a car unit for road use? I
have never heard the terms used that way.
Rick
Dennis Mohn
"nemo" <gnu...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I don't know anything about the iPhone, but I know that you don't
>really need waypoint projection. If you are at point X and want to go
>YYY feet in the direction ZZZ degrees, you just set point X as your
>GOTO point and then go in the direction ZZZ-180 (or ZZZ+180) degrees
>for YYY feet. I find this is typically more accurate than an actual
>projection because most of the time a projection function asks for the
>distance in miles!
And you really think this works? Try this in a forrest or on any place where
you can't walk straight in direction "ZZZ-180"... And then find the exact
point where you are YYY feet away. If you were in my area I would show you a
cache where it's impossible to find the correct waypoint that way (~2 miles
away...)
Cheers
Dennis
nemo
I don't think you understand what I am saying. It has *nothing* to do
with walking a straight line. It is exactly the same as using a goto,
except that instead of letting the unit point in a direction and
telling you the distance, you are trying to get the distance to a
given value and the bearing to another value. The distance and
obstacles have nothing to do with it. You are simply looking for the
spot that is ddd distance and aaa-180 angle.
BTW, nothing is *impossible*.
Rick