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Geolocation is the identification of the real-world geographic location of an object, such as a cell phone or an Internet-connected computer terminal. Geolocation may refer to the practice of assessing the location, or to the actual assessed location.

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Indexing an entity in an actor thread using Grails searchable

I am using the Grails searchable plugin to index an entity with a custom text representation. I want this entity to be indexed in an actor (using GPars) that will be triggered asynchronously once the entity was inserted. Is there any way to realize…
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mobile reality with camera and compass and location

I'm building a mobile app with expo, I would like to display place's images and some other info on the camera. I have {altitude, latitude, longitude, image,...} of each place, and I know the dimension of the phone {height, width}, the direction of…
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Smoothing the values of the Compass on Android devices

In my Android Application there's a cube which uses the compass to rotate, but the compass returns sometimes for a very small time a value which is completely different to the other values. Is there a way to solve it or must i write an Method to…
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How to position an image in relation to the center?

For my school I make a compass. So I have that on my phone: enter image description here The problem is a align center for the position. And I want to make the sensor (the blue bubble). So for that I want to move the images with the center position…
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Geolocation : Is there are way to find if someone is going up in the altitude

I am trying to develop an application in which i have to track if people are travelling up on different floor in the building. I tried using GeolocationAPI that gives me altitude in meters above the sea level but as its a same building the lat,long…
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Transforming compass direction output

I have directional outputs which are both flipped and + - as appose to genuine compass outputs. I want to convert these using math to give me the correct output. I am pretty sure this can be done using trigonometric functions, i would welcome any…
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Looking for: Android Compass API

I'm programming an application for the Samsung Galaxy, using flash. I'd like to access the digital compass, but I can't with Actionscript. :( So I was wondering: Is it possible to use an android api that checks the digital compass and writes the…
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iphone GPS Accuracy value and getting current co-ordinates value

I am using GPS in my app. The issue it is not getting proper value(I get cached value what i get before. n.can anyone please tell me how to use timestamp to get current value? And i want to show the GPS Accuracy value in Feets. Can anyone please…
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Orientation towards a GPS point and calculation of the distance to it

I wanted to try to create a way to be oriented towards a GPS point that I previously acquired with LOCATION. I would like the navigator cursor to detect where I am moving with respect to the point of arrival and to calculate the distance between me…
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how to add compass to mapview

How do I get the compass to be shown on the screen when my mapview is created. What is wrong with this code? any suggestions? protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); …
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How to calculate azimuth from X Y Z values from magnetometer?

I want to make compass with Arduino and QMC5883. Now, the magnetometer outputs me only X Y Z values, and I have to calculate the rest myself. So far, I've used this: float azimuth = atan2(x, y) * 180.0/PI; But it's pretty buggy, and vulnerable to…
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How can I make image always face up?

I have an image that describes a head of a monkey. I want that the head of the monkey always face up. When you turn the device the head of the monkey turns too, but I want that in spite of the rotation of the iphone the monkey head dooesn't turn…
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How to konw the Primary InterCardinal direction (N,E,S,W) of a place using the current location latitude and longitude?

I'm kind of lost here, I'm working on my app and this really confused me. Let me explain it like this, for example; A- is my current location with Lat&Long. B- is another location Lat&Long. Now, I want the lat&Long of B pointing toward A Lat&Long.…
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Where the iPhone compass points? (math question, not geography)

I noticed a really puzzling behavior on iPhone: If I hold the phone in the vertical, and tilt it, the compass change. I already figured the amount it changes is the same amount it would change for the same amount of tilting if it was in horizontal…
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Move left, right or continue walking while following an CLLocation destination in iOS + objective c

I have to point the arrow to the defined destination location (in my sample code it's CLLocation with latitude 70.0 and longitude -50.0) and guide the user saying "Great! continue walking" if the user is moving with 5 degrees left or right of the…
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