getting GPS info from a Garmin iQue M5...or other Pocket PC

[bbulla]

Does anyone have experience getting the X and Y coordinates from your Pocket PC with GPS reciever?? If so, is it relatively straight forward to do?

I'd like to create an application in VB.NET that will allow a user to fill in some fields, and then have the locational data that the GPS unit should provide be saved with each record.

Any insight or advice would be helpful.

Thanks,

Brian

[tchart]

in order to get the X/Y coordinates you would need to read the NMEA sentences being streamed by the GPS. This involves connecting to the COM/Serial port and parsing the NMEA sentences to get the current position.

Also remember that the location will be reported in Lat/Long

[GSmith]

I think I just read that OpenNETCF.org is alpha or beta testing a GPS class for .NET.

There is a class called GPS (OpenNETCF \ IO \ Serial \ GPS) at

http://www.opennetcf.org/SourceBrowse/browse.aspx?f=d:/sites/OpenNETCF/InetPub/wwwroot/Source/OpenNETCF/IO/Serial/GPS

Greg Smith
Author, FeederReader - The Pocket PC RSS, podcatcher, videocatcher
www.FeederReader.com - Download on the Road

[bbulla]

Actually here is another good resource that I found on the web regarding the NMEA code that the GPS reciever creates.

http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/WritingGPSApplications1.asp

It's very detailed, but gives a good description what is going on, and also a link to the authors tools he created to make getting the Lat/Long, etc. much easier.