- From: Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:00:31 -0800
- To: Greg Bolsinga <bolsinga@apple.com>
- Cc: Richard Barnes <rbarnes@bbn.com>, Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>, Taqi Jaffri <tjaffri@microsoft.com>, "Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com>, public-geolocation <public-geolocation@w3.org>
well, there is heading, and there is orientation. For example, i can be going north (heading) at 10 m/s, but i could be facing south (orientation) the whole time. Doug On Nov 19, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Greg Bolsinga wrote: > 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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