[Qgis-user] GPS in QGIS

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Sebastian,

On Sun, 11. Oct 2015 at 17:18:42 +0200, "Sebastian Teßmer" wrote:
> I own a Lenovo Pad with Windows. 8
> I'd like to use in QGIS the internal GPS of the PAD.
> Unfortunately this does not work.
> How do I set it? Do I still need a special driver?
> Or another program?

You're probably encountering http://hub.qgis.org/issues/7878.   I suppose the
internal GPS works via the Windows Positioning API, which QGIS does not yet
support.

QGIS currently only supports GPS devices that speak NMEA on a serial port, gpsd
(local or remote gps on unix/linux) and the Qt positioning api (I think only on
Android).

On Windows some otherwise incompatible devices can be used with a driver that
creates a virtual serial port and produces NMEA on it.  I don't know if
something like that exists for the Windows Positioning API.

Apparently so far no one had a strong necessity to develop that or fund someone
to do it.


Jürgen

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