Re: C# and gps

A GPS device usually uses a serial port to communicate over, but I believe
that there are now GPS systems that use USB ports as well. In either case,
you need to connect to the port to read the GPS stream. A GPS stream is a
string of NMEA text. Her
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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
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http://unclechutney.blogspot.com

Where there's a Will, there's a William.
e is a good NMEA reference:

http://www.gpsinformation.org/dale/nmea.htm

"gordon" <gordononline@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi

I would like to write an application that will use gps and bluetooth to
calculate the speed of my vehicle. I would like to display this on my PDA.
I have a bluetooth GPS device and an IPAQ PDA.

I already have some GPS software but I would like to develop some of my
own using C#.

Any assistance or help with code will be appreciated.

thanks

doug



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