Interfacing with GPS hardware

[Guest]

Hi,

I need to write a windows mobile application (using .net CF) that will have
to read GPS co ordinates from the GPS hardware attached to the PDA. Does
anyone know anything about interfacing with GPS hardware? I have tried to
contact the manufacturer of the card to no avail. I got all the resources on
the format of NMEA sentences produced by GPS hardware, the problem is, I
don't know how to get the snetence from the hardware programmatically. Any
ideas?

Thanks

 

[Gilles Kohl [MVP]]

Hi,

I need to write a windows mobile application (using .net CF) that will have
to read GPS co ordinates from the GPS hardware attached to the PDA. Does
anyone know anything about interfacing with GPS hardware? I have tried to
contact the manufacturer of the card to no avail. I got all the resources on
the format of NMEA sentences produced by GPS hardware, the problem is, I
don't know how to get the snetence from the hardware programmatically. Any
ideas?

Just a shot in the dark - did you try if the device sends data via an
(emulated) serial port? If the manufacturer of the card has gone down
proprietary alley, their name is probably important.

Regards,
Gilles.

 

[Dick Grier]

Hi,

I have a DecodeGPS dll on my homepage that may be used with any serial
object, including CFSerialIO dll that is included, or with the
System.IO.Ports serial object in Visual Studio 2005 (Compact Framework
) -- it is free. You also can download the SDF from www.opennetcf.org,
which includes a GPS object -- SDF also is free.

Dick

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