How to use phone (GPS?) to measure points

Hi
If I had my phone such as an iphone and I wanted to measure the length of something I could put it at one end of the item, click something and put it at the other end of the thing I want measured and it would tell me the length of that object.
Is there a way I could do this using actionscript.
I was thinking gps but it that not preside enough?
Any Ideas
Thanks

If you're looking for precision then no, GPS will definitely not be enough.
I'd suggest considering some alternatives but even those are going to be quite difficult.
You have the method your own mouse uses which is snapping a low resolution picture of a surface as you move over it analyzing the picture to see how far you've moved frame to frame (requires some fairly sophisticated image analysis).
Otherwise possibly some means of snapping a photo from multiple angles while analyzing them for perspective differences which can tell you distance, but isn't user friendly and won't work unless you're close to the object (a bridge far away will barely move when you do, won't work).
Accelerometer still isn't up to snuff (you can read why in many places) but things are getting better.

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