Regarding writing directly to the database, I wrote an article illustrating this approach for image data just a couple of days back:
http://ahmadsoft.org/articles/gearpush/index.html There, I'm writing to the Local Server's database. You could do the same (write the latest NMEA data to a predetermined URL). Or, you could write to the actual website's database, in which case take a look at the code listing titled "Compute the image output location"--- it can be easily adapted to get the database location. would running an applet to pull the NMEA stream and put it onto the page where your Gears app could read it be an option? amin On Feb 23, 1:14 pm, Pasi Miettinen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
