{"id":52408,"date":"2021-06-03T03:01:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T17:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=52408"},"modified":"2021-07-02T14:00:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T04:00:23","slug":"compass-ios-app-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/compass-ios-app-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Compass iOS App Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/iPhone\/compass_app.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Compass iOS App Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/iPhone\/compass_app.gif\" title=\"Compass iOS App Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Compass iOS App Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Regular readers will know about our penchant for &#8220;the where of life&#8221; concerns, especially where that intersects with software &#8230; a very big intersection!<\/p>\n<p>And so, it&#8217;s been very remiss not discussing an iOS app, in Utilities (at least on an iPhone) called &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\nCompass<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; because, in a revisit today it is not only &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>geographical position in terms of latitude and longitude &#8230; does this great app provide you &#8230; it is &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>elevation (<a target=_blank title='?' href='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qy7BygPBs-Y'>surprisingly<\/a>) &#8230; and not so surprisingly (given name of app) &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>bearing of (<font size=1><a target=_blank title='?' href='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vjD3EVC1-zU'>not up, but<\/a><\/font> horizontal) direction you point the device (for us, an iPhone)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; all in the one very useful display (you can see us using in today&#8217;s <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/iPhone\/compass_app.gif\" title=\"Tutorial picture\">animated GIF<\/a> presentation) for &#8230; at the very least &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>orienteering enthusiasts<\/li>\n<li>land surveyors<\/li>\n<li>solar panel planners<\/li>\n<li>real estate enthusiasts<\/li>\n<li>astronomy enthusiasts (perhaps also using the Torch app not to trip on any tree roots!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d52408' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d52408\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/compass\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d52408' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers will know about our penchant for &#8220;the where of life&#8221; concerns, especially where that intersects with software &#8230; a very big intersection! 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