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[Guenther Meyer]

Am Montag 29 Dezember 2008 schrieb Vyatcheslav Perevalov:
> В сообщении от 30 декабря 2008 Guenther Meyer написал(a):
> > most people won't have a gps device, that can detect the real heading I
> > guess, gpsd also only gets the 'track' direction afaik.
>
> Nope. It gets a full vector of velocity and splits it to "vertical speed"
> and the volume and direction of "horizontal speed", not a track direction.
what?

it puts out a track direction!
horizontal speed is the speed in track direction.
we are talking of two dimensions here, so there's no use for a vertical speed!


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