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Content indexer for Outernet receivers
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Add satellite finder options #404

Open JDogHerman opened 7 years ago

JDogHerman commented 7 years ago

Feature Request:

Include a basic Azimuth calculator based on supplied latitude and longitude.

This site includes one and the author permits its reuse. It is written in HTML and JavaScript.

abgoyal commented 7 years ago

Eventually, yes.

Should not be much effort, though I also don't see much value in it considering most people will anyway have to use a cellphone app to actually locate the Azimuth, even if we did provide the value. And in that case, the cellphone app can also do all those calcs instead of having to enter those in.

JDogHerman commented 7 years ago

Personally I would like, is as I am building this an emergency device with analog compass included. I would still need another device to retrieve data BUT that device could be a laptop or any other device with wifi and a browser. I wont have to make sure an app is downloaded or a public website is available.

abgoyal commented 7 years ago

I will add it to the list. Though a bookmarklet might be more useful in your case.

I do encourage you to bring up your use case on the forums https://forums.outernet.is - I would like to know more about it, and the other users might also be interested to learn what your are building and how you are using it. They may even have better ideas to solve these problems.