compass_msgs

[peci1]

Hi, we're also working on compass packages - however, the magnetometer-based ones.

We faced the issue that there is no good message type for compass outputs, so we created it: https://github.com/ctu-vras/compass/ . It basically contains just the azimuth with a few flags explaining what type of azimuth it is.

We intend to make a binary release of these packages for Noetic soon. Would you be interested in using these messages, too? If you'd find them useful, we could try to get the message in sensor_msgs.

[rsasaki0109]

Your new message type seem like a good approach to handle issues with compass data. Whether it should be included in sensor_msgs could be decided by collecting feedback from the ROS community. However, adding a new message to sensor_msgs might require a review process by its maintainers.

[peci1]

Thanks for the reply. One of the criteria for accepting a new core message is usage of its preliminary version in various packages. That's where this package could help.