Hello, Is anyone aware of a patch for Gears to get a location from an external GPS( USB/COM port) while running Windows XP? I am not aware of any Gears methods to read the NMEA stream from a GPS under Windows. I am hoping someone has already written such code. There is a growing pool of users who use XP-based Netbooks, UMPCs, ultramobiles, etc. who currently can't use Gears due to the lack of GPS integration. (WiFi and Cell triangulation is not accurate enough).
I have heard of a suggestion to write a piece of code to bridge the GPS and Gears by using the *gearsLocationProviderUrls *method but I have not heard anyone actually implementing it. (The bridge code would presumably read the NMEA stream from a GPS and make it available as a URL to be read by the gearsLocationProvideUrls.) Alternatively, others have suggested that the GPS NMEA stream could be written into the Gears database and Gears could then read the database. I have not seen anyone actually posting any patches or work-arounds to the GPS-XP-Gears integration so I am hoping someone in this group would have a solution to this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best regards, PM
