GPS - Acquiring Locations from a GPS Bluetooth Receiver

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Acquiring Locations from a GPS Bluetooth Receiver

Yancho

2007-02-03, 7:33 am

Hi,

I have a Sony Ericsson K800i Mobile. I am interested in buying a
Bluetooth GPS receiver so as to be able to acquire the location
points.

I am interested in writing the application using GIS myself, so I am
just interested in how the coordinates are transmitted. I think I have
to write the java application myself right? All I just want is some
reference to a library, an RFC or something which specifies how the
coordinates can be passed from the Bluetooth dongle to the Mobile.

The Bluetooth dongle I am thinking of buying is this : http://
cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110086017097t

Thanks and regards

Matthew

Simon Slavin

2007-02-05, 10:33 pm

On 03/02/2007, Yancho wrote in message
<1170503399.770917.217650@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com>:

> All I just want is some
> reference to a library, an RFC or something which specifies how the
> coordinates can be passed from the Bluetooth dongle to the Mobile.

Google on 'NMEA GPS'.

But check the stats of the device you want to buy to see if it does talk
NMEA, and how you'd make it open a BlueTooth channel for it to do so. If
you can't get the programming manual without buying the device, don't buy
it because it will be a pain to work with.

Simon.
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