On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Piren <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually it is... for devices that have a barometer, its not that hard. > He'll have to do a bunch of optimizations and calibrations to achieve > decent accuracy, but unless he's not looking for 100% accuracy, he can get > an estimate of what floor you're on.
Can you elaborate on how you would do this, then? Because I'm thinking that factors like differing floor heights between buildings and different concepts of "floors" would render this impossible. For example, you could be on the 10th* story* of a building, but really be on the 9th *floor* if they don't count the lobby as the "1st floor". And if you're on the 10th floor of a building on Mt. Everest, how does the device know that's the same floor as the 10th floor of a building at sea level? Unless those are the "calibrations" you spoke of, in which case the time it would take to calibrate such an app would render it quite useless, I would think ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
