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how to determine the direction using GPS?

‎12-09-2009 03:39 PM

I can get the GPS heading in degrees.

how do i determine which direction it is?

i want to know if i'm heading N, NE or SE etc..

thx

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Re: how to determine the direction using GPS?

‎12-09-2009 03:52 PM

It's all relative to "North".

0 is North

90 is East

180 is South

270 is West

...and you can figure out the non-cardinal points from there.

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Re: how to determine the direction using GPS?

‎12-09-2009 04:12 PM

thanks. i didnt think it was that easy

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Re: how to determine the direction using GPS?

‎12-09-2009 04:15 PM

OK - mark the thread "solved" then?