Landing Page Compass iOS App Tutorial
Here at RJM Programming we’ve moved! This affects …
- street address
- phone number
- latitude and longitude
… that last one the weirdest one to contemplate, but these days, linkages to Google Maps are an important part of the “Contact” parts of running a website, we figure.
How best to glean that new “latitude and longitude” data set? And then the recent Compass iOS App Primer Tutorial sprung to mind (again).
That gave us latitude and longitude in degrees, minutes and seconds, but Google Maps interfacing works best with latitude and longitude in decimal degrees. And so, though it works less and less across platforms these days, we tend to think of any “Calculator” app or good ol’ “Bookmarklet” functionality such as …
javascript:alert('-' + eval(33 + 43/60 + 29/3600) + ',' + eval(150 + 25/60 + 37/3600));
… written to a Google Chrome web browser address bar, getting us to …
-33.724722222222226,150.42694444444444
… helping us complete this triad of modes of change we needed to apply to the RJM Programming Landing Page.
Previous relevant Compass iOS App Primer Tutorial is shown below.
Compass iOS App Primer Tutorial
Regular readers will know about our penchant for “the where of life” concerns, especially where that intersects with software … a very big intersection!
And so, it’s been very remiss not discussing an iOS app, in Utilities (at least on an iPhone) called …
Compass
… because, in a revisit today it is not only …
- geographical position in terms of latitude and longitude … does this great app provide you … it is …
- elevation (surprisingly) … and not so surprisingly (given name of app) …
- bearing of (not up, but horizontal) direction you point the device (for us, an iPhone)
… all in the one very useful display (you can see us using in today’s animated GIF presentation) for … at the very least …
- orienteering enthusiasts
- land surveyors
- solar panel planners
- real estate enthusiasts
- astronomy enthusiasts (perhaps also using the Torch app not to trip on any tree roots!)
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