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Using my phone's GPS with a laptop app

How can I use my phone's GPS with a program like Streets and Trips or Street Atlas?
I often use my laptop while on the road (the wife drives) and would prefer a better option than TT6 Navigator.

you might have to get a USB gps puck for the laptop

GPS
Does that mean it can not be done? I have an interest in this also.

you need...
you need to expose your GPS to an external serial BT port. I think there is a tool called BlueGPS that does this. You can then use BT on your laptop to get the NMEA output. It makes your integrated GPS phone act like a BT GPS device for your laptop.

JonnoB said:
you need to expose your GPS to an external serial BT port. I think there is a tool called BlueGPS that does this. You can then use BT on your laptop to get the NMEA output. It makes your integrated GPS phone act like a BT GPS device for your laptop.
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I use BlueGPS with my tilt over USB and it works well, except if I try to use Internet Sharing or WMWifiRouter it disconnects the com port. I haven't been able to get BlueGPS to work with Bluetooth of Wifi yet. So it only works with programs that have the maps on the computer and not ones like GooPS that get the maps from the Internet.
Mike H

I downloaded the BlueGPS CAB, but cannot seem to get it to work.
Any specific instructions on how to get this BlueGPS work on the phone and have the laptop computer use the phones internal GPS receiver over bluetooth?
Attached is the BlueGPS installer CAB.
Thanks
Ron

Old thread...but after much investigation, I have discovered what you need is gps2blue, not BlueGPS!
gps2blue is free, and will do what is desired here.

GPS2Blue
GPS2Blue is here: http://users.skynet.be/hofinger/GPS2Blue.html
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Is this program only for PDA or is there possibility for Andoid device...

mehere pc gps utility + tilt???

http://mehere.glenmurphy.com/
how do you connect to the internal gps on the phone?

I do the same thing with Google Earth. I have my TYTN II connected to my notebook via USB cable and I use a little utility called, "GPSGate."
GPSGate works with every single GPS program I've run across. It even works via Bluetooth and ActiveSync.
Check it out...
http://www.franson.com/

Tilt as gps receiver for laptop.

Is there away to use the tilt as a gps receiver for my laptop?
Thanks

I believe the easiest way is to use GPS Gate

I am interested in this too. do you have any experience with gps gate? what application is the gps able to interface with on the laptop?

I tried gps gate but could'nt get it to work with microsoft sreets and trips.basicly any software uses gps should be able to use the tilts gps.just need a better way to foward it to the laptop.also don't like having to use active sync for gps gate to locate the phone on the laptop.

There's GPS2Blue, it's free but less simple to use.

GPS2Blue works very well. But, kilrah is correct that it can be a pita to setup. After some searching I did find a nice walkthrough on this site - basically, it's all about setting the com ports correctly and weather you want it to use BT or the usb cable for transferring data. I had some problems with BT initially so I used the cable connection. Which I personally think is better anyway because it will charge your phone at the same time. I'm using this solution in a CarPC. It is awesome.

Did you actually get GPS2Blue to work over BT? I can't. Setup suggests to create an incoming COM port in the BT settings, but on my WM6.1 ROM this option doesn't exist. If I jsut choose a random BT COM port in the program (tried all) all I get is IO Exception, waiting for BT to be enabled (it is obviously on).

Disregard, found solution. For some reason they removed the incoming port config option from WM6 on, but it's still possible to add one via the registry, and once this is done it works perfectly well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2157013&postcount=23

Is there an app that will allow the Nexus to act as an external GPS for a laptop?

In my old iPaq days I used an application called GPSGate that would allow me to use the GPS of my iPaq 6515 as an external GPS via USB or Bluetooth and connect to my laptop.
The NMEA data would then stream to the laptop and voila, GPS data on the lappie.
I have searched and hunted and cannot seem to find an equivalent app for the Android envionment, anyone seen one...?

I also searched for this one month's ago but also couldn't find anything. hope someone here knows.

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SO far I have found two apps that MAYwith work be able to work.
BlueNMEA which is supposed to pass the NMEA GPS data via Bluetooth from N1 to the computer.
So far I get it running, seems to be pulling data, can set up a BT connection but I simply can't get the PC to "see" the COM 3 port and data.
Not sure if the issue is with the app or with the BT stack implementation on Android
GPS Tether
This one sets up a GPSD process running on the N1 and is supposedly useable via USB and ADB and port forwarding.
I have tried it a slightly different way which is tantalizingly close to working. I have set up the N1 with WiFi terhering on and associate the PC with it. Once up and running I can run a terminal session via IP and can connect to the port but it still has problems with passing data.
All these have been tried with a Win7 box so I am going to see if a Ubuntu box may have different results.......

Navigation apps.

I cant open this app....It sez "WAITING FOR LOCATION" error... any fix?
Thanks

firewater2003 said:
I cant open this app....It sez "WAITING FOR LOCATION" error... any fix?
Thanks
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You have to have a gps connected for your tab to know where you are. Check the gps threads for options.
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debh945 said:
You have to have a gps connected for your tab to know where you are. Check the gps threads for options.
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I did that already, check the GPS connection in the option, still got problem.
I let the "WAITING FOR LOCATION" for 5 minutes, and still no luck.
Since I bought my Gtab, this Navigation App is not working...
Any thought?..Thanks

Go to settings applications development and check allow mock locations

Rumbleweed said:
Go to settings applications development and check allow mock locations
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i did that, but still no luck...thanks

What kind of gps are you using? Do you have BlueGPS installed and running on the gtab when you connect your bluetooth gps? I have a Bluetooth Tomtom gps and connect it to my gpad using BlueGPS. When I go to navigation it instantly locks my location. I've also used the same method to connect my LG Optimus gps via bluetooth with perfect results.
You also must be connected to wi-fi for Google maps to work unless you have an app that allows you to download the maps to the sd card (ie: CoPilot).

'Locus' also allows you to download maps from various sources and supports GPS. I've had it working with my TomTom bluetooth GPS receiver.

debh945 said:
What kind of gps are you using? Do you have BlueGPS installed and running on the gtab when you connect your bluetooth gps? I have a Bluetooth Tomtom gps and connect it to my gpad using BlueGPS. When I go to navigation it instantly locks my location. I've also used the same method to connect my LG Optimus gps via bluetooth with perfect results.
You also must be connected to wi-fi for Google maps to work unless you have an app that allows you to download the maps to the sd card (ie: CoPilot).
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Do you mean, I have to install GPS apps before the NAVIGATION apps to work?

You're aware that the GTab doesn't have a GPS in it? You need to physically buy a bluetooth gps and pair it for navigation to work. You can spoof your location using several apps, but for an actual location you need to buy one.

Nospin said:
You're aware that the GTab doesn't have a GPS in it? You need to physically buy a bluetooth gps and pair it for navigation to work. You can spoof your location using several apps, but for an actual location you need to buy one.
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Thanks for the info.

I cannot make Locus to work with the Tomtom Bluetooth GPS MKII.
Click on GPS ON and it come back unalble to connect to device !
How do you do that? Help.
Thank you.

999ping said:
'Locus' also allows you to download maps from various sources and supports GPS. I've had it working with my TomTom bluetooth GPS receiver.
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I cannot make Locus to work with the Tomtom Bluetooth GPS MKII.
Click on GPS ON and it come back unalble to connect to device !
How do you do that? Help.
Thank you.
Note: I ran BlueGPS4Droid_1.2.2.apk too