LOOKING FOR SOFTWARE!!!

WIL · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 21, 2004 Posts: 5

Anybody know of any software that will read nmea0183
from my gps and trigger launch of application and load
a file when entering a given geographic region??
wiltronix@bellsouth.net 8O [/b]

Dave · Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 7:22 pm Post subject:

Nope, haven't seen any that will do this.

balloonatic · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 5:25 am Post subject:

A company called franson.biz sells a VisualBasic .dll called GPSTools that can be used to write your own software. I'm using this library to write a Hot Air Balloon Tracking program.

It won't detect a nmea sentence unless you have the custom software built and running and a connection to a GPS. As far as launching an application, loading a file and detecting a geographic region...no problem!
You just have to find a VB programmer to write the code for you.

By the way GPSTools is just one of the GPS type add-ins that they sell and their products should work on regular Windows or Windows Mobile 2003.

No, I don't work for franson.biz nor do I have any financial interest in the company.

http://franson.biz/gpstools/index.asp?platform=win32&lang=en

See Yah

ascardoso · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 07, 2005 Posts: 3

You can also use gpsd [http://gpsd.berlios.de/].
This is a GPS daemon that runs on Windows/Linux and MacOSX.

Using some scripting language you can probably read its output (NMEA), check for GGA sentences with the location you want, and launch you app.

Regards,
A. Sergio Cardoso

GPS Discoveries
http://jeepx.blogspot.com

Greymane · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 24, 2005 Posts: 18

Memory-Map Navigator would do this quite easily. You can attach a file to a waypoint and, if you set the proximity alarm for the waypoint, the file will open when you reach the designated perimeter around the waypoint. Thus, you could have a description about an area in an audio file, and when you approach the area, it would start playing the audio file.

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