Re: GPS module, sense of direction

2007-04-30 Thread Carl Snellman
You can usually get the direction of travel (=course) out from the GPS in the NMEA sentences (see http://www.kh-gps.de/nmea-faq.htm). I think Neo will do this calculation in its software, and if it will spit out NMEA, you'll have that information. However, since the course can be calculated only

Re: GPS module, sense of direction

2007-04-30 Thread Jim Thompson
Vladimír Lapáček wrote: Hi, I am quite currious about the GPS module planned in Neo 1973. For me it is one of the really nice things about Neo. I don't have much experience with GPS, but this really makes me thinking about buying the device. My question is if in Neo will have sense of

Re: GPS module, sense of direction

2007-04-30 Thread Vladimír Lapáček
I can understand the motion - orientation principle, but you still need some practice with that because it cannot know if you moved it pointing forward or rotated 90 degrees. So you would really need to be very careful about that. I know that every mm of space and every mA of current counts, but