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Feb 10, 2023

Compass & Altimeter

Summary

The Compass & Altimeter app is a tool for retrieving information about your current position, including your location on a map, the direction you are facing, and your altitude above sea level. The app works offline and without network access, and provides information about sunrise and sunset times. It also includes various dials and color themes, and allows for angle measurement and bubble level functionality.

Features

1. Compass & Altimeter is a simple and easy-to-use app that provides useful information about your current position, including true geographic north and true altitude above sea level.
2. The app works offline and without network access, and provides accurate readings using magnetic declination.
3. The app also provides information on sunrise and sunset times, as well as azimut angles in various units.
4. The app has a variety of dials and color themes, and includes a bubble level functionality for added convenience.
5. The app is available for both iOS and Android devices.

Keywords

Compass, Altimeter, Geographic north, True altitude, Sunrise, Sunset, Azimut angles, Dials, Color themes, Angle measurement

A simple and easy to use

Compass

to retrieve useful information about your current position such as true

Geographic north

and true

altitude

above sea level.

• Works perfectly

offline

and without network access

Geographic north

using magnetic declination

True altitude above mean sea level

(AMSL)

Sunrise

&

Sunset

times

• Azimut angles in deg, grad, mrad, gon

• Various dials and color themes (including high contrast)

• Angle measurement (with dials including measuring capabilities)

• Bubble Level functionnality (

available in iPhone dial

)

• Use EGM96 as the geoid reference for computing altitude

• Latitude & Longitude in MGRS, UTM coordinate formats

• Latitude & Longitude in DD, DMM or DMS format

• British National Grid (OSGB86) coordinate system

• SwissGrid (CH1903 / LV95 / MN95)

• Magnetic field strength to detect potential perturbations

• Sensor accuracy

• Address of your current location (requires data connectivity)

Compass better works outside where magnetic perturbations are low.

Magnetic closure cell phone cases

may also disrupt the accuracy of the compass.

EGM96

(Earth Gravitational Model) is used as the geoid reference to compute true altitude above sea level from data collected by the GPS sensor.

UTM

(Universal Transverse Mercator) is a system for assigning coordinates to locations on the surface of the Earth.

Have fun !