There exists a program for the Palm Pilot which does exactly what you want. It is called Sol II. It is shareware and can be found, I believe, on the download.com or palm.com websites. If you cannot find it I can try to help you further.
Good luck, Steve Madden Steve Turley wrote: > > Esteemed list... > > My wife is a realtor who often wants to determine the direction a house > is facing. Being directionally impaired, and not having a car with a > built-in compass, she is usually at a loss. I had the idea, not > especially original or brilliant, of writing an anti-sundial for her > Palm PDA. My idea is that, given the time and approximate location and > knowing the position of the sun, we should be able to determine which > way is North. I was thinking of a program that would draw a compass rose > and display a marker showing the sun's position. She would then rotate > the Palm until the marker pointed at the sun and, voila, the rose would > be oriented properly. Accuracy of +/- 30 degrees is adequate. > Any reason this won't work? > And, since I'm mathematically lazy, can someone tell me how to do the > calculation? > > Thanks. > > - -
