Hi all,
I'm trying to use google maps with the internal GPS but the program say me that not founds any gps. How I must set the device?
Thank's
try to jumpstart your GPS with GPSview then start googlemaps. this might work.
Sorry but...
what is GPSview? It's an external application?
madness974 said:
Hi all,
I'm trying to use google maps with the internal GPS but the program say me that not founds any gps. How I must set the device?
Thank's
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works fine for me when setting the port to 4 and and baudrate to 4800 in Google maps
In START>Setting>EXTERNAL GPS
I have this setting:
programs (TAB) - DATA PORT GPS: COM4
hardware (TAB) - hardware GPS port: none
- baud 4800
Access (TAB) - Automatic GPS control (DEFAULT)
I set in google map COM4 and baud 4800, but don't work
Sorry, but I've the TYTN II fron 2 days
Use any GPS Application like TomTom to start the GPS and then switch to google maps without closing TomTom. This should work.
Goole Maps doesn't wait always long enough for a gps signal.
Special2k3
Ok, thank to all for reply, now I'll try...
Keep retrying till the gps gets the fix. If you get the fix with another application and then try with google maps, it will be very fast.
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Tnx all
All solved!
All default and google maps work perfectly, without open other GPS application!!!
How, exactly, did you solve it?
that's bloody annoying he didnt share the love - i have the same problem!
I noticed that gps doesn't work when you're sitting at home. I've never had it failed on me when I was in the car, specially when the car was moving.
I used google map's and the gps feature to take me through an hour of traffic coming home from work.
GPS
I start up my GPS with GPS Photo to initialize(takes time to load) then open Google Map.
Hope this helps
Will givethe gps foto thing a go - good thinking!
Its amazing after 2 days wifi gps sniffing how many wireless AP there are
http://www.blackfire.be/maps/
GPS Photo works well also
little_rock said:
that's bloody annoying he didnt share the love - i have the same problem!
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Here is what worked for me.
Goto Settings>System>External GPS, use the Kaiser defaults of GPS program port=COM4, Hardware=None, Baud rate=4800, Enable "Manage GPS automatically."
Run quickgps and download the current ephermis ?spelling data. This speeds up the time to first satellite lock.
Go outside, preferably open location with clear view of the sky.
Run gpsPhoto from the Camera app.
Allow a few minutes to obtain first satellite lock.
Once you have a satellite lock you can close the Camera app and open Google Maps and change Menu>Options>Track Location Settings to "Set by Windows". Press the OK left softkey.
Press the Right Menu softkey and select Track Location.
Bingo you should have a Satellite Lock and Google Maps should center on your location.
I only had to do this procedure once as Google Maps now aquires a lock in seconds. The Kaiser gps works better indoors than my 2 previous Blutooth GPS units, I can see which room of my house I am in. As with all GPS devices it works better in an open environment free from reflections from buildings and free from Tree cover. I am really impressed with the Kaiser GPS.
you rock dude
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Sorry to all for my tardive reply
I've solved the problem simply without change nothing.
All default, and launcing google maps the gps start automatically (if not, initialize it with any gps software, like tomtom, gps photo, etc).
BUT - IMPORTANT
Google maps function well in open spaces, I tried it in closed, so, don't worked.
In open space, all ok, it's work fine.
N.B. I've an italian version of O.S. :
CE 5.2.1620 (build 18125.0.4.2)
Rom 1.56.408.5
Data Rom 08/28/07
Vers. Radio 1.27.12.11
Vers. prot. 22.45.88.07H
I feel it can help someone.
Thank's to all for your help and interesting
wizzzard said:
Here is what worked for me.
Goto Settings>System>External GPS, use the Kaiser defaults of GPS program port=COM4, Hardware=None, Baud rate=4800, Enable "Manage GPS automatically."
Run quickgps and download the current ephermis ?spelling data. This speeds up the time to first satellite lock.
Go outside, preferably open location with clear view of the sky.
Run gpsPhoto from the Camera app.
Allow a few minutes to obtain first satellite lock.
Once you have a satellite lock you can close the Camera app and open Google Maps and change Menu>Options>Track Location Settings to "Set by Windows". Press the OK left softkey.
Press the Right Menu softkey and select Track Location.
Bingo you should have a Satellite Lock and Google Maps should center on your location.
I only had to do this procedure once as Google Maps now aquires a lock in seconds. The Kaiser gps works better indoors than my 2 previous Blutooth GPS units, I can see which room of my house I am in. As with all GPS devices it works better in an open environment free from reflections from buildings and free from Tree cover. I am really impressed with the Kaiser GPS.
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You said something very interesting here...you said you can see which room you're in. How is that? more of a curiosity thing than a useful thing but I guess it could be handy in large buildings (assuming you can get a fix).
Also, FYI, the new Google Maps is much better at waiting for the GPS to fire up. The timeout value is much more forgiving. I've noticed in the new Gmaps, It just works now.
I need software that will allow me to mark a waypoint and add a description to it for later retrieval.
Anyone know of something that works like that?
I've looked, but haven't been lucky at all.
Tia.
Mack
GPS Tuner is very good. You can import/export tracklogs, waypoints etc in multiple formats, like GPX or Google Earth kml.
Memory Map (I'm assuming you're from the UK), which is Ordnance Survey mapping software, works with the internal GPS. It will record waypoints and routes and provides data like elevation, speed, etc. You can upload the data to a PC for analysis. You can find...er....evaluation copies on the net.
If you're planning on doing it with any amount of accuracy, then have a read of this thread which will be relevant to you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=336079
Hi all,
Windows mobile SDK 6 has a FAKEGPS program wich provides fake NMEA data to the GPS. This FAKEGPS reads NMEA data from a txt file. This is perfect for testing on a emulator. But now i want to provide FAKEGPS my own txt file with a recorded trail.
For this reason i want to write a little program for my diamond which records NMEA strings into a textfile. Is this possible using the intermediate driver, or should this be done communicating to the device directly? Can anyone provide some sample code?
Thank you in advance!
Solutionator said:
Hi all,
Windows mobile SDK 6 has a FAKEGPS program wich provides fake NMEA data to the GPS. This FAKEGPS reads NMEA data from a txt file. This is perfect for testing on a emulator. But now i want to provide FAKEGPS my own txt file with a recorded trail.
For this reason i want to write a little program for my diamond which records NMEA strings into a textfile. Is this possible using the intermediate driver, or should this be done communicating to the device directly? Can anyone provide some sample code?
Thank you in advance!
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Code:
[DllImport("gpsapi.dll")]
static extern IntPtr GPSOpenDevice(IntPtr hNewLocationData, IntPtr hDeviceStateChange, string szDeviceName, int dwFlags);
[DllImport("gpsapi.dll")]
static extern int GPSCloseDevice(IntPtr hGPSDevice);
[DllImport("gpsapi.dll")]
static extern int GPSGetPosition(IntPtr hGPSDevice, IntPtr pGPSPosition, int dwMaximumAge, int dwFlags);
[DllImport("gpsapi.dll")]
static extern int GPSGetDeviceState(IntPtr pGPSDevice);
Thank you. I found this code also in the GPS example of the SDK.
But the GET_POSITION function on the driver does not return raw NMEA strings, it returns a struct wich is already formatted. What i would like is these raw strings:
$GPGGA,191938.767,4738.0173,N,12211.1873,W,1,06,1.4,33.4,M,-17.2,M,0.0,0000*72
$GPGLL,4738.0173,N,12211.1873,W,191938.767,A*2A
$GPGSA,A,3,08,27,10,28,13,19,,,,,,,2.6,1.4,2.3*3E
$GPRMC,191938.767,A,4738.0173,N,12211.1873,W,0.103296,21.60,291004,,*29
$GPGGA,191939.767,4738.0173,N,12211.1871,W,1,06,1.4,33.4,M,-17.2,M,0.0,0000*71
$GPGLL,4738.0173,N,12211.1871,W,191939.767,A*29
$GPGSA,A,3,08,27,10,28,13,19,,,,,,,2.6,1.4,2.3*3E
$GPGSV,3,1,9,8,71,307,43,27,78,59,41,3,21,47,0,10,26,283,32*72
$GPGSV,3,2,9,29,13,317,0,28,37,226,38,13,32,155,31,19,37,79,40*48
$GPGSV,3,3,9,134,0,0,0*46
$GPRMC,191939.767,A,4738.0173,N,12211.1871,W,0.097420,25.48,291004,,*23
The MSDN site on this topic tells me there are two ways for retriving data from the intermediate driver:
1) Accessing Parsed GPS Data - I believe this is part of the example you provided. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb202033.aspx
2) Accessing Raw GPS Data - I hope this makes it possible to read all strings in NMEA. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb202097.aspx and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb202019.aspx
The problem is that i don't understand what they are doing in the second example. "Open a connection to the GPS Intermediate Driver multiplexer, by calling CreateFile" Like.... how, where,what?
I found an example which listens to the GPS directly, but i prefer the intermediate driver if possible.
you should check out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=394203
this project is using the intermediate driver which IS the solution you should be using.
Wauw. Great stuff. But RemoteTracker is still using intermediate driver option 1 (Accessing Parsed GPS Data).
Until I find out how I could manage to get option 2 to work (Accessing Raw GPS Data from the intermediate driver), I will extract some from the following code to get the full Raw NMEA string.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/mobile/GpsTracerAppWMCE5.aspx
Sadly it is bypassing the intermediate driver, but hey, it works. For all other GPS actions i will use option 1 from the intermediate driver.
Does such a program exist?
gps viewer v 1.5 does
I really like this program: NoniGPSPlot it save points, and can create KML/KMZ files to load into Google Earth, also shows positions of satellites and a bunch of other useless to most, but really neat information pieces.
I have used this on biking trails to see how fast and how far i traveled it's not the best looking but it's a decent App.
I've been using Visual GPS ce-
http://www.visualgps.net/VisualGPSce/default.htm
GPS Test
I use GPS Test to prime the GPS, and if you toggle down with the DPad, it shows satellites and then a bunch of information on the 3rd screen, including Lat and Long. These other programs may be better, but for GPS information this is pretty good. I think the new HTC GPS Tools? .cab someone posted in these forums gives a lot of sat information.
I use GPS Utilities from Efficasoft -- http://www.efficasoft.com/gpsutilities/index_wm_ppc.html. Always worked well on my Moto Q and likewise now on my Fuze.