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Google uses AI along with the camera to correct the compass. If they could integrate this correction with their standard compass API it would be a game changer.
by ridewinter 7y ago
Google uses AI along with the camera to correct the compass. If they could integrate this correction with their standard compass API it would be a game changer.
As a side note, the API docs in both Android and iOS fail to mention how unreliable the compass outputs are!
- tjoff 7y agoOr they don't don't know about it. It is pretty apparent that the google maps team have never tried to navigate via compass on an actual phone.
- martyvis 7y agoCompass operation is clearly dependant on the hardware and your physical surroundings. My phone compass ( LG V30+) works well in a suburban street or open bushland, showing high sensitivity. Inside my steel framed house or 5 metres from a 40 storey steel reinforcement sky scrapers not so much. ( And not much different from my 40 year old Silva compass) That's why Google is using the camera, Street view and AR to align the orientation
- tjoff 7y agoYes. And why, for the love of everything that is holy, can you not disable compass navigation then?!? Even gps direction is vastly superior during walks - despite the obvious issues with that.