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Originally posted by THEDUDE86
I would like to say that in the last months and years there has been an alarming change in the polar location. Here is a story about it last month.
www.foxnews.com...
I think the real question, is not whats going on with this kids compass but what is going on with the movement to be speed up the polar situation?
www.magnetic-declination.com...
Originally posted by burdman30ott6
reply to post by UberL33t
Just an FYI, those cell phone compass apps work off of GPS satelite position mapping, not magnetic North as a standard compass does. If your cell phone compass app is showing the wrong direction, it means you don't have an unbroken line of sight to the satelite or are in a spot where the GOS satelites are not directly overhead.
Originally posted by burdman30ott6
reply to post by UberL33t
Just an FYI, those cell phone compass apps work off of GPS satelite position mapping, not magnetic North as a standard compass does. If your cell phone compass app is showing the wrong direction, it means you don't have an unbroken line of sight to the satelite or are in a spot where the GOS satelites are not directly overhead.
Originally posted by antibyte
Originally posted by burdman30ott6
reply to post by UberL33t
Just an FYI, those cell phone compass apps work off of GPS satelite position mapping, not magnetic North as a standard compass does. If your cell phone compass app is showing the wrong direction, it means you don't have an unbroken line of sight to the satelite or are in a spot where the GOS satelites are not directly overhead.
Thats wrong.
Most Smartphones,if not all, today use a digital compass ic.
Those work very accurate but are also very sensitive to metals and electric
fields.
Originally posted by minettejo
I was just looking at this map on mass animal deaths and it looks similar to our "wrong" compass readings.
I would love to see an overlay if anyone knows how to do this.
Mass Animal Deaths Map