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Use barometer for altitude?

Open luke-jr opened this issue 8 years ago • 3 comments
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According to this StackOverflow post, GPS has poor altitude information. Should the barometer be used on phones that support it? OTOH, maybe GPS altitude is better just for consistency between different phones?

luke-jr avatar Sep 26 '17 20:09 luke-jr

How can we use barometer to get altitude value?

tananaev avatar Sep 26 '17 21:09 tananaev

I don't know :(

luke-jr avatar Sep 26 '17 22:09 luke-jr

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/SensorManager#getAltitude(float,%20float)

stefanb avatar Oct 16 '18 14:10 stefanb