Re: Retrieve GPS coordinates...

Oh right, I guess that makes sense, why include it if you don't have a
built in GPS receiver... so to take advantage of any old GPS bluetooth
receiver on any device it's back to serial ports and all those nice
NMEA strings then :(

Cheers

Matt


Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] wrote:
This may or may not be enabled by the device OEM, however. I'd start with
just opening the serial port and getting the strings...

Paul T.

"DJMatty" <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1156250960.288290.30780@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi

WM5 supports retrieving GPS positions in API, rather than having to use
serial ports, this allows the device to supply positions to many
applications rather than having the serial port tied up by one app.

Take a look in the WM5 MSDN help (or google) GPSOpenDevice. They call
it the GPS Intermediate Driver.

Cheers

Matt

Sam wrote:
Any receiver that you should even think about will support NMEA. In
the
case of a Bluetooth GPS, it connects via the serial port profile, so it
looks just like it's connected to an ordinary serial port.

Search the archives for information on libraries which are available
for
doing serial I/O, if you're not using .NET CF 2.0, and libraries for
interpreting NMEA strings:

I'm using CF 2.0.
Have you C# example?

Thanks!


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