Alex van den Bogaerdt <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you would use RRDtool, and do not carefully avoid all its consolidation, 
> you will end up with an average wind direction of 180 built from 350 and 010 
> at some point in the future.

Yes that's a tricky thing to work round.
<cough> years ago, with a different hat on, I had involvement with stuff I 
can't talk all that much about - lets just say that submersibles have a lot of 
similarities with aircraft when it comes to controlling them. There was talk 
about an autopilot on a previous project that wasn't designed to cope with the 
359-0 problem, and while out on trials, while following a track close to north, 
it suddenly decided it needed to do a loop to get back on course. Ie the error 
had taken it across this discontinuity so the autopilot thought the error was 
350+˚ instead of just a few ˚ :D
On our project, we made darned sure we tested for that during acceptance trials.

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