On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 04:41 PM, cteno4 wrote:
Has anyone had any experience with getting GPS data from a GPS unit into
metacard or rev?
No, but I have done it in the past with LabVIEW and serial.
I'm working on a data collection system for a research
project and am hoping to grab GPS data from a GPS unit. Noticed that many
of the GPS systems are now going USB and also have not found any info yet
on polling the gps unit to spit out data. I've done a lot of serial
communications with equipment in metacard, but not GPSs yet.
If it is a serial unit, you should be able to do it.
I don't remember the protocol. I think I found it online. I might have just looked at the reports using a terminal program. Grab some GPS and see what you get. IIRC, it was simple ASCII text, maybe some comma delimited numbers of some sort. I don't remember if I even sent commands to the GPS, I may have simply passively listened to reports.
Because GPS units are migrating from serial to USB, you might find that their drivers create a virtual serial device. You should be able to open that.
Let us know how this works out.
Dar Scott
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