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What have people developed with the Garmin SDK ?
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| I recently purchased a Nuvi 200 and am curious what has been done with the
SDK. From what I read at Garmin's site it sounds like I can communicate
with the GPS but not write applications for the unit itself (I wasn't
holding my breath on the latter but it sure would be nice). Is there a site
with apps people have developed out there? I didn't have luck finding
anything with my first web search...
Thanks,
Dave
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| Christen Fihl 2007-09-09, 3:33 pm |
| I have used the FleetManagement SDK, not much of the general SDK.
The Garmin itself has more options when using this FleetManagement SDK.
When using it, you can make drive-to lists on the Garmin device, send
and receive messages (like sms), and get notification when on
destination.
My company has used this SDK for a a FleetManagement system for police
cars, so 112 (911) calls are send electronically to the Garmin as
"Driveto 45 North Ave, ..". Press the GO button, and you are on your
way. Responcetimes (from start to on location) are then also recorded.
http://www.innovative.dk/eng/interVIEW-fleet_e.htm
The black box shown is a a small cpu handling the serial data to/from
the Garmin and communication with the build in GSM/gprs radio.
As each position is about 25 bytes, we send 40000 positions for the
price of 1MByte GPRS data.
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Christen Fihl
http://www.innovative.dk/
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| Simon Slavin 2007-09-11, 10:33 pm |
| On 09/09/2007, Christen Fihl wrote in message
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> http://www.innovative.dk/eng/interVIEW-fleet_e.htm
> The black box shown is a a small cpu handling the serial data to/from
> the Garmin and communication with the build in GSM/gprs radio.
> As each position is about 25 bytes, we send 40000 positions for the
> price of 1MByte GPRS data.
That's very cool. I've written software to write .gpi files (POI lists
and TourGuide files) and I was looking forward to the more general
toolkit. But I really want to see better documentation for it before I
spend my money. The information I can get from the web site doesn't
really tell me if it's going to be useful.
Simon.
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http://www.hearsay.demon.co.uk
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| Phil Hornby 2007-09-12, 4:33 am |
| "Simon Slavin" <slavins.delete.these.four.words@hearsay.demon.co.uk> wrote
in message news:fc7la2$8k7$3$83
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> On 09/09/2007, Christen Fihl wrote in message
> < 46e44c2f$0$6893$edfa
db0f@dread14.news.tele.dk>:
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> That's very cool. I've written software to write .gpi files (POI lists
> and TourGuide files) and I was looking forward to the more general
> toolkit. But I really want to see better documentation for it before I
> spend my money. The information I can get from the web site doesn't
> really tell me if it's going to be useful.
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> Simon.
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Simon, I think you're talking about the "Content Toolkit" aka "GPI
Creator"...in which case, there is a 90 day evaluation available (after
which, it's just $500 per annum!!)
However, the Evaluation Licence Agreement says:-
"..., COMPANY agrees not to (i) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble,
modify or create derivative works of the Deliverables..."
Would you be able to resist the tempation:-)
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| Simon Slavin 2007-09-14, 10:35 pm |
| On 12/09/2007, Phil Hornby wrote in message <fc87si$krb$1@news.datemas.de>:
> Simon, I think you're talking about the "Content Toolkit" aka "GPI
> Creator"...in which case, there is a 90 day evaluation available (after
> which, it's just $500 per annum!!)
Yep. And that's part of the problem: my application is not a commercial
product with sales. If I started charging for it I'd sell a few copies,
but not enough to let me spend $500 a year. And I'd have to start keeping
track of sales, licenses, payments, and how much tax I should be paying on
it. It's not going to happen.
> However, the Evaluation Licence Agreement says:-
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> "..., COMPANY agrees not to (i) reverse engineer, decompile,
> disassemble, modify or create derivative works of the Deliverables..."
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> Would you be able to resist the tempation:-)
If Garmin have taken a look at what I've already written they'll know I
have no need to do any of those things.
Simon.
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http://www.hearsay.demon.co.uk
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