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Here's a copy of the email that I sent to Marco.<br>
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Bob Bruce<br>
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<td>Re: [Qgis-developer] Accessing GPS devices platform
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<td>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:26:00 -0500</td>
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<td>bob @ SHAW <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Bob.Bruce@shaw.ca"><Bob.Bruce@shaw.ca></a></td>
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<td>Marco Hugentobler <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:marco@hugis.net"><marco@hugis.net></a></td>
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Hi Marco:<br>
<pre> A few months ago I started work on a GPS plugin that
would work on Windows since gpsd doesn't work there. I used Martin D's
trackGPS plugin as a starting point. I've got it working over a serial
port to the point where it is actively displaying the location on the
map canvas. I got stuck at the point where I was going to save the
track to a Shape file because I couldn't get the Shape writer to set
up the attributes exactly the way that I had programmed it to (i.e.
when a text attribute of a certain size was requested the attribute
actually appeared in the file at some default size). This plugin is
not as advanced as some that are under development, it only displays
the position with various options and will save the track to a Shape
file (when that part is finished) but it does work on Windows now. I
plan to finish work on it this week and release it and I will be
asking for help to get the Shape file attribute problem resolved. Any
help that you or others could lend to this effort would be appreciated.
Bob Bruce
Sent from my iPhone
On 2009-09-05, at 7:34, Marco Hugentobler <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:marco@hugis.net"><marco@hugis.net></a> wrote:
> Hi devs
>
> Is there a way to access the data from a GPS device (serial port or
> USB port)
> in a platform independent way? From what I have read, gpsd can be
> used on
> Linux but not on other platforms.
>
> Is it necessary to directly parse the NMEA 0183 protocol on windows?
> I see
> there are some projects connecting gps devices and QGIS (QGIS track
> GPS,
> Quantum Navigator, QGIS mapper). Is there already some NMEA related
> code?
>
> Thanks for any suggestion,
> Marco
>
>
> --
> Dr. Marco Hugentobler
> HUGIS - GIS Programmierung und Beratung
> Honrainweg 5
> CH-8038 Zürich
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