Re: iPhone map doesn't know which way your facing...

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<520d06ec-74e0-4739-915d-c05e5c4615b1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
SpreadTooThin <bjobrien62@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I find it annoying that the iPhone map application doesn't rotate the
map as you move/turn/rotate....
Shouldn't it be able to tell which way your [sic] moving (assuming
your [sic] moving straight ahead) and rotate/translate the map such
that the direction of travel is orientated to the 'top' of the screen
like all other gps systems do?

I know that most gps navigation systems use to 'antenna' to determine
the pgs's [sic] orientation, but with the assumption that the person is
moving forward it should be easy to determine the persons [sic] heading.

The iPhone isn't a GPS. And even if it were, a GPS isn't a compass.
A GPS doesn't know anything about its directional orientation; only its
location.

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