Buy a copy of 'Palm OS Programming, The Developer's Guide' (2nd edition) The serial example in it uses the NMEA protocol and the serial manager to get locations from a GPS.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Hock NG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 7:40 PM Subject: Re: GPS receiver for PALM m500 > Thanks for your reply. We would like to focus on > software and leave the hardware to other people. Do > you know where I should look for examples as I only > need to get locations out of the GPS receiver and I > dont need the whole of NMEA protocol just a specific > clause. Did you have experience trying to work the > interface with PALM OS? > > Thanks again. > --- Marco Pantaleoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 05:52:16PM -0800, Kim Hock > > NG wrote: > > > Anybody has worked on a NMEA interface to a GPS > > > receiver and can recommend me a suitable receiver > > to > > > work with? > > > > I've worked with the GPS receiver module from > > u-blox: > > > > http://www.u-blox.ch/ > > > > It supports NMEA in addition to its own (documented) > > protocol. > > I've written some interface code for linux, it's > > quite > > easy to control. > > > > > > > > Would appreciate a cheap receiver that can plug > > into > > > PalmOS type of PDAs... > > > > You could build your own using the above mentioned > > module, or > > alternatively, for a cheap ready solution, look for > > Earthmate from > > DeLorme. > > > > Marco > > > > -- > > > ======================================================================== > > Marco Pantaleoni > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Padova, Italy > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > elastiC language developer > > http://www.elasticworld.org > > > > -- > > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, > > or to unsubscribe, please see > http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/ > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! > http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/ > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
