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Originally Posted by nokiabot View Post
Yeah yeah ! 1 1
for your attempts in making it go offline to the extent possible
btw what about this crazy idea??
Using the camera viewfinder at day time which shows the sky blue black using actual imagery ie clouds sun etc to overlay imformatin like stars planets etc
using the wiki ie evopedia database ofline for more info
clicking on planet shows distance from earth and sun
zooming out to milkyway then fliping to other galaxy to roam there intractively
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The problem with this is that the N900 does not have a compass. It doesn't know which direction it is pointed, so it can't do an augmented reality type of sky display. While in principle one could do a calibration orientation of the phone, and then use the accelerometers to track how the position changes as a function of time, in practice that won't work because the accelerometers aren't very accurate. They are intended to be good enough to tell if the phone should be displaying in portrait or landscape mode. They are not nearly accurate enough to keep track of the phone's azimuthal orientation as it is slowly rotated.
 

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