Using a PPC with GPS and Software to send the signal to a PC

gpsman2005 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 20, 2005 Posts: 3

Does anybody know of any software that will route the GPS signal / data to a PC/Laptop using either infrared, bluetooth, or a USB cable??

mikealder · Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 10:16 pm Post subject:

Memory map (along with loads of others) will run with GPS data on the PC and does not need the PDA in the loop, what exactly are you trying to achieve, and what do you want to do with the GPS data on the PC is it just raw NMEA text strings or have you something more elaborate planned? - Mike

lbendlin · Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 10:16 pm Post subject:

GPSGate can do it via TCP/IP. You don't want to start with infrared or USB. Bluetooth supports TCP/IP
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gpsman2005 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 20, 2005 Posts: 3

I just wanted to try and use autoroute to see if I could track the position. I have tried GPSGate which look like it would work, however the PDA with the GPS doesnt have a network adapter built into it, and I cant find anything that might let me pass the data via the active sync pass through connection.

(I thought it had blue tooth but it doesnt, i was confusing it with my other PDA)

The PDA is a Medion PNA100, which works fine on its own. Just fancied having a pay as I was bored. It seems it also doesnt allow for a SDIO wireless SD card so I think I will give up unless anyone can suggest a way using the USB cable or IR (I have tried these with GPSGate, but i dont think the data gets through at all).

mikealder · Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 5:32 am Post subject:

If using "AutoRoute" on a PC then it will support a GPS unit for direct connection the following is from its help file:

"To work with AutoRoute or Pocket Streets, your GPS receiver must be compliant with NMEA (National Marine Electronics Association) standards, and its input/output format (interface) must be set to support the NMEA 0183 version 2.0 or later format. For more details, check the documentation that came with your receiver, or visit "

keep the com port below a value of 20 and you should be OK, I would not bother with the PDA just couple the GPS up direct to the laptop - is the GPS a bluetooth unit, if it is I am not too sure if MS AutoRoute will work with it or not, the configuration options just appear as serial data, which BT is but it doesn't want to try and hook to my Altina GPS, but the two serial port (rs232) units works fine - Mike

gpsman2005 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 20, 2005 Posts: 3

the GPS is built into the PDA - thats the whole point of my exersise, to see if I can save myself some money rather that getting an additional external GPS reciever

Pc-Mobile · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:40 am Post subject:

I have not tried it myself but GPSGATE should let you do it through a serial cable of your PDA.

If your PDA is a Mio clone, which has a serial port (com 1), you can use a serial cable to connect to another PDA/PC, using GPSGATE.
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Leif · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 04, 2005 Posts: 16

GpsGate should work but there is also another, a bit more primitive solution, named com2com.

http://homepage3.nifty.com/palmday/main_sw_ppccom2com.html

I have tried it with my Yakumo Delta 300 GPS, which is a Mitac Mio 168 clone, to copy data from GPS on com2 to hardware serial port on com1 and also to the Ir-port on com3 or 4 and to another PC. Port numbers might be different on your PDA. Only 4800 baud is supported.

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