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Re: Position Heading Questions?

From: Greg Bolsinga <bolsinga@apple.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:52:06 -0800
Cc: Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>, Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>, Taqi Jaffri <tjaffri@microsoft.com>, "Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com>, public-geolocation <public-geolocation@w3.org>
Message-Id: <5E3D565F-A6EA-4D4F-9776-D48DF8DB4B07@apple.com>
To: Richard Barnes <rbarnes@bbn.com>

Isn't it the direction the hosting device is HEADING, as in the vector  
of travel?

-- Greg

On Nov 19, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Richard Barnes wrote:

> Minor revision:
>
> The |orientation| attribute denotes the direction of the hosting  
> device is facing (as defined by the hosting device) and is specified  
> in degrees counting clockwise relative to the true north (degrees to  
> the east of north). If the implementation cannot provide orientation  
> information, the value of this attribute must be null.
>
>
>
>
>
> Doug Turner wrote:
>> strawman:
>> The |orientation| attribute denotes the direction of the hosting  
>> device is facing and is specified in degrees counting clockwise  
>> relative to the true north. If the implementation cannot provide  
>> heading information, the value of this attribute must be null.
>> On Nov 19, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Richard Barnes wrote:
>>>
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