the vertical elevation of an object above a surface (as sea level or land) of a planet or natural satellite
Questions tagged [altitude]
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Location.getAltitude() starts returning identical invalid values after a certain time period
I need your help.
I wrote a very simple Android widget that shows the altitude which I get in the onLocationChanged method:
public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
double myAltitude = -99;
if (location.hasAltitude()) {
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Barometer (BMP180) pressure measurement problem
I have a barometer (BMP180) and am interfacing it with aSTM32. I have to read the altitude which should have a precision of a foot.
While interfacing the barometer, I get a consistent real value of temperature but the pressure comes in the range of…

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Here Maps polyline with altitude
I need to display different polylines from A to B. So, these lines should be distinguishable from each other. I haved tried to set polylines using pushpoint function with altitude parameter. However it is still on the ground level. And the last…

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Altitude problem IOS
I have a problem in getting the altitude , it returns 0.0000 . Here is my code:
- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didUpdateToLocation:(CLLocation *)newLocation fromLocation:(CLLocation *)oldLocation {
NSString *tAltitude =…

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Computing Altitude Azimuth from device orientation (alpha, beta, gamma)
I'm editing an exsisting web application which only support input [ra,dec] = [altitude,azimuth], I am able to get the alpha, beta, gamma angles from device orientation events (link…

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Concise interpretation of JSON data (Location History) and altitude
I got this data from my phone, most of it I generally understand, but some of the GPS positional values have me confused. The data was taken by a Samsung Galaxy S8 which has a barometer built in. I've been reading many posts and answers about this…

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How can I get the altitude of a set of locations using, for example, open-elevation?
I'm currently taking a class of Algorithms and have to do a project related to Graphs, more specifically finding the shortest path in a set of locations. The problem is we not only have to take distance between points into account, we also need to…

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Convert altitude to stairs
I have a Huawei Watch 2 which has altitude support using the {aalt} tag in WatchMaker and an Android phone.
How can I use this tag to convert to staircases climbed?
In the Huawei Health app it shows a "Climbed" reading which it converts to an…

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Cordova plugin geolocation for android doesn't return altitude
I am currently trying to obtain the altitude of a phone running Android 5.1.1 but it doesn't seem to get it. I'm using the cordova plugin geolocation on the ionic platform which allows you to use AngularJS. The weirdest part is the phone gets the…

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Tracking phone (relative) height with precision within 10 cm
I am trying to track changing phone height. The initial phone height can be inputted. I would like to track the height quite precisely (less than +- 10 cm range), and for a prolonged period of time (at least few minutes). Hopefully, I would have…

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Cordova Geolocation --- Altitude Not Work
I am using the plugin for geolocation of cordova and it all works , except the altitude .
is my problem or it is not possible to have this value ?
This is the plugin code and my:
var onSuccess = function (posizione) {
alert ('Latitudine:' +…

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How to store altitude into Google Encoded Polyline Algorithm Format
I am now working on creating route paths from multiple markers on Google Map by using the Encoded Polyline Algorithm Format where it encodes all the information of latitudes and longitudes into an encoded string.
For example, here are the points (…

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Altitude value in bing maps in silverlight
I was looking around for the code that can give me the value for current location in bing map in silverlight. I have not found any codes yet.
Can anyone please tell me how can I get altitude (elevation) value for current latitude and longitude.
I…

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Getting more accurate position
How can I get more accurate position with reverse geocoding in android.I have searched a lot on this,but could not find a desired solution.Is there any way using the altitude and other fields of location on reverse geocoding to get location?
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GDAL GeoTiff get elevation at a specified pixel help C++
I am understanding English not so well and I am not the best C++ Programmer so I decided to ask a question here to compensate this.
I am trying to get the elevation out of an GeoTiff image I downloaded from this page:…

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