gps extension idea

[Russ Nelson]

Didrik Pinte writes:
 > One of my client will probably use Thuban to pilot some of their field
 > work. They need to have the map recentered on their actual position. I
 > was thinking about making an extension that could discuss with a gps
 > connected to the pc ... 
 > 
 > Does some of you have already done/think about something like that ? 
 > 
 > The problem is that it will be on a pocket pc running w32 ... thus no
 > way to use something like gpsd.

I have Python code which reads an NMEA stream and parses it.
http://www.pygps.org/

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