AFAIK Windows 8 doesn't provide ways to expose the Location API as a virtual COM port (it's a feature that many users are asking).<div>A solution would be the use of a driver to expose the Location API as NMEA provider.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Here two examples are provided:</div><div> - <a href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowshardware/Sensors-Geolocation-Driver-5f2a11d6">http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowshardware/Sensors-Geolocation-Driver-5f2a11d6</a></div>
<div> - <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windows/hardware/ff545919(v=vs.85).aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windows/hardware/ff545919(v=vs.85).aspx</a> </div><div><br></div><div>giovanni</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/6/5 Nathan Woodrow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:madmanwoo@gmail.com" target="_blank">madmanwoo@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Well it's more a feature then a bug, but it does need to be fixed.  We need to be able to access the internal GPS without the user needing to install another bit of software.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
<br></div></font></span><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">- Nathan</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br>

<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Bill_Williamson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill.williamson@productivewaterservices.com.au" target="_blank">bill.williamson@productivewaterservices.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>


<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So there is no bug in QGIS.<br>
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