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Enable map rotation offset

Emilio Poyales shared this idea 7 years ago
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For some reason the compass of my device does not point North (0º) when I'm pointing North with my device. So the problem appears when I'm looking to a peak with my eyes and I point with my device at that peak (In order to see in the locus map which peak is it). When I do this, I realize that the locus proyection line (The orange one) does not really point to the peak when my device is really pointing to the peak. As a reluts I find there's a deviation of some degrees (May be 3º or 4º) between the axis of my device (where my device is really pointing) and the proyection line generated by locus. The farther the peak is, the bigger the deviation I have on my device. And, at the end, I can not identify the right peak when I point it with my phone.


I recommend an easy way to solve this issue. My proposal is to create a new configuration function were we'll be able to introduce "map rotation angle offset" just like the "Map Offet" function (which gives a North and South offset) . So in the map offset funtion we could intruduce North Offset, South Offset and ANGLE OFFSET.

What do you think. Please see my attached files to understand my issue and my solution proposal.

Cheers!!

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Good day Emilio,


I believe that difference between north on your compass and north in Locus is because of magnetic declination. You may disable/enable this declination in Locus > settings > sensors > Use true bearing.


Increased difference for places far away is probably caused by curvature of Earth, anyway if you disable "Use true bearing", situation should be a lot better. Let me know if it helps.


I think, that current idea should not be needed and if I forget for a while on complexity of implementation, I think it's usage for most use cases will be really low. Thanks for understanding and hope that disabled "true bearing" helps here.

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