get gps info online to create a gps application

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I am trying to create a gps application which will getting the gps data and displays the coordinates on screen. I am a newbie and believe that gps has an id which I will enter to the project and receive the info from the gps. Any articles, code and tutorials welcome.

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Kyriakos

Posted 6-Mar-12 23:38pm

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El_Codero · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-06T23:56:00

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Hi,

I'll try to provide you the right solution but yet I don't exactly know what you trying to do (more information please).

Because your topic titel is "get gps info online..." I assume you want to receive gps-coordinates from a specified address through an provider like google maps. You have to use their api(s).

Please read a similar solution which I wrote yesterday, it provides you an overview of common API's for retrieving/translating/working with GPS-data to/from adresses.

Google Maps Controls with MySQL[^]

For the case you want to extract Coordinates from a real physical GPS-Device which is normally attached with USB/RS232 to your pc, you'll need to open your Serial Port connection and read the NMEA string to extract latitude/longitude coordinates.

Mapping with a GPS and C#[^]

http://www.gpsinformation.org/dale/nmea.htm[^]

With Best Regards

Posted 6-Mar-12 23:56pm

El_Codero

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Member 3892343 7-Mar-12 8:41am

Hello,
Thank you Bjorn, I was looking on how to receive gps coordinates through google maps, I will see your first solution.

Thanks again

El_Codero 7-Mar-12 9:26am

Hi, hope this will be a good starting point for you. Please mark answer as accepted if you have no further questions and solution is working for you. Best Regards

Member 3892343 7-Mar-12 13:22pm

Hello,
Just to ask, I havent red the article yet, is there any way (with this article) to find a gps online? eg I have a garmin gps can I find it on google maps without connect it to the pc?

El_Codero 7-Mar-12 14:53pm

Mostly depends what your garmin product is. navigation system?outdoor gps?If you want to tracking your device live, you need some device with gsm connection/satellite phone;). If you're an owner of a device with garmin connect, you can track it online and use the API to send new waypoints and receive gps and other data from device.

Here's a list which Garmin devices supports garmin connect
http://connect.garmin.com/

Garmin Device Interface SDK
http://developer.garmin.com/web-device/