I wrote an installable device driver for the Delorme EarthMate GPS last
month for Windows CE. As Randy discussed, most of this is covered where
he mentioned at sci.geo.satellite-nav. In fact, Randy gave me a few
pointers last month ;-) As Randy discussed, the Earthmate (and
Tripmate) are a little trickier to write to because Delorme believes
that proprietary is good. Anyway, I have source code for a state
machine which will parse the data stream and store data away in some
variables. It's Windows CE code, but the Win32 file calls are easily
replaceable with Palm OS code. I'd be more than happy to find it and
give it to whomever is interested. It doesn't parse NMEA-0183, rather,
it parses the Rockwell Binary protocol. But it is easily modifiable to
handle NMEA-0183.
Also, if you're interested in a NMEA-0183 example, check out Palm
Programming, Developer's Guide by Rhodes.
Drop me a line if you're interested.
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randall Pulsifer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 1999 7:13 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: GPS and Palm
>
> Try newsgroup: sci.geo.satellite-nav This topic is covered there
> quite regularly. In fact, you'd be better off checking message
> archives such as on dejanews for this topic. If you are using a
> NMEA-0183 compatible GPS, it's all ASCII and pretty
> straightforward, if it Rockwell Binary (such as in Delorme's
> Earthmate) it gets a bit trickier. Selfishly, I can't help out much
> more until *our* current GPS app is released. ;-)
>
> Randy P
> Pulse Data Systems
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean Cyr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Monday, March 22, 1999 6:27 PM
> Subject: Re: GPS and Palm
>
>
> At 03:00 PM 3/22/99, you wrote:
> >I am sure this issue has come up and been well covered, so feel free
> to
> >direct any replies to my email rather than the list.
> >
> >Can anyone give me information on integrating one of the available
> GPS
> >receivers (data) into a custom app?
>
> Please post responses here as well, as I am also interrested
>
>
>
