- From: Rick Waldron via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:32:28 +0000
- To: public-device-apis@w3.org
> and it appears that these sensors all have an integrated temperature sensor Yes, and I actually cannot identify a barometric pressure sensor that doesn't come with a temperature. I still think that these need to be treated as discrete sensors. > So I have a bunch of follow up questions: > For this particular case, where two sensors on a single sensor are used to provide compensated data to improve the overall quality of the readings, what should be exposed to the Web platform? > - the compensated pressure reading and the temperature reading? These are the only useful values that any program will care about. "Uncompensated" air pressure measurements are "wrong" air pressure measurements ;) > From the barometer data, it seems easy to get elevation data using a bit of math, the temperature(?) and a few constants (mean pressure at sea level, something else?). Should a separate new sensors.Altimeter() be also exposed in that case? This is exactly what I was thinking. -- GitHub Notif of comment by rwaldron See https://github.com/w3c/sensors/issues/51#issuecomment-112870300
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