How to Access Serial GPS Device

[PulsarSL]

Hello. I have a DeLorme Earthmate serial GPS device. I'd like to write a C# program that grabs the current lat/lon. Does anybody have any clue how I could do this??

Thanks
PulsarSL

 

[MasterRacker]

Unless DeLorme provides a software development kit for .NET, you will need detailed information about the DeLormes communitcations protocol (packet size, command structure, etc.) Also you will need a 3rd party serial communications package or write your own.

Here's info on serial communication:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/10/netserialcomm/

<sub>Jeff
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[PulsarSL]

Ah, well, that's disappointing considering DeLorme's site says nothing about an SDK and I don't have $80 to spend on <a href = "

http://www.gpsdotnet.com/Tour/">this</a>.

But is this sort of what I need??? It says that that GPS SDK link about follows this standard:

http://nmeatool.nmea2000.de/download/0183.pdf

Thanks,
PulsarSL

 

[MasterRacker]

GPS.NET looks like exactly what you need. I'd call it a pretty reasonable price for what it's doing. IT handles all the communications and does device discovery for choosing a protocol.

<sub>Jeff
[purple]It's never too early to begin preparing for [/purple]International Talk Like a Pirate Day

I was not born cynical - I earned my cynicism through careful observation of the world around me.</sub>