- From: Greg Bolsinga <bolsinga@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:11:10 -0800
- To: Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.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>
Isn't this the question this is trying to clarify? If so, I think that "the direction of the hosting device is facing" doesn't match my understanding. Andrei indicated it was the direction of travel, not the way the device is facing. -- Greg On Nov 19, 2008, at 11:00 AM, Doug Turner wrote: > 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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