gps extension idea

[Didrik Pinte]

On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 09:53 -0400, Russ Nelson wrote:
> 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/

Thanks for the link. I'll have a look at your NMEA parser.

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Didrik