[Qgis-user] Android phone GPS to QGIS or BeeGIS

[Tomáš Vrána]

Hi,

we have a really good experience using external uBlox USB GPS. It has 
the nice feature of being able to receive NTRIP corrections which adds 
significantly to accuracy (+- 20cm). Either we connect it directly to 
laptop running Qgis or it's connected to RaspberryPI running gpsd and 
ntrip clients, while Qgis runs on android tablet and receives gps data 
via wireless. This way we can hold the external antenna high enough to 
get an unblocked view at most times...

Tomas Vrana  <tomas.vrana at cemotel.cz>
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Dne 16.10.2013 10:26, Zoltan Szecsei napsal(a):
> Hi Conrad,
> Nice to get some real field experience coming through in your reply.
>
> Franson GPSgate is what I had stumbled upon too, but then my wife 
> stole my laptop to go up country to run a 3 day course, so it will be 
> Friday before I can resume my experimentation.
>
> I will probably end up connecting an oldish Garmin 60CSx to the 
> laptop, but was wanting to set up the system for trials, using the S3.
>
> Next issue is to find Camera software that also records (approx) 
> compass bearing in the image.......
>
> Regards and thanks for your input.
> Zoltan
>
>
>
> On 2013/10/15 22:59, conradh wrote:
>> Hi Zoltan,
>>
>> Have you tried using Franson GPS gate. I used it a couple of years 
>> back to
>> interface between a "Qstarz" GPS data logger which transmistted a 
>> NMEA live
>> stream via blue tooth and QGIS on a laptop. I came to the conclusion 
>> that
>> sometimes the QGIS buffer gets full so using GPS gate buffers the 
>> live NMEA
>> stream and generlly keeps things orderly.
>>
>> I am not a fan of using your phone GPS for the following reasons a) 
>> battery
>> life b) you always need to use your phone for something else and c) 
>> if you
>> use a stand alone gps transmitter you can tape it to the front dash 
>> in the
>> car/ put it under the sun visor etc so that you have a clear gps signal
>> through the front windscreen of the car. The application was ground 
>> truthing
>> power line routes around Ankor Watt in Cambodia to ensure the line 
>> routes
>> were outside the nominated temple areas and worked quite well. 
>> However the
>> learnings were that it is hard to use a laptop in a car on a bumpy 
>> road and
>> you should always have a backup gps logger.  I also taped a mobile 
>> phone USB
>> dongle to the front windscreen of the car so I could download GE as a
>> background map in real time but this did not work so well, too many 
>> wires
>> and not a good phone signal in some areas. If I was doing it again I 
>> would
>> have the case of a GPS transponder taped to the front dash so I could 
>> easily
>> remove the transponder as needed (they get hot in the sun when 
>> parked) and
>> use some sort of tablet, with good battery life, which would be 
>> easier to
>> use in a moving vehicle. In a similar manner if you are data logging 
>> while
>> wandering about you can put the transponder in your hat band as they are
>> quite small and you will be more likely to recieve a good gps signal 
>> (clear
>> view of the sky)
>>
>>
>>
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