Mono GPS interface

[Schmidt András]

Thanks for all replies!

Currently the Moko port of Yama is only planned and I have no OpenMoko 
phone yet.
On PocketPC GPS binding reads the COM port directly and parses NMEA 
itslef. The only reason for that is I did not find any documentation of 
any gpsd like server on windows Mobile.

>A better idea would be to use the dbus interface of
geoclue[1], gypsy[2] or even gpsd[3].

I think you are right.

Yama's Moko GPS binding is in design phase, so I consider every possible 
solution. I will read the documentation links you have sent. The one I 
like most is gpsd.

 Soeren has written that there is a python binding, the gpsd page says there is also a c and a c++ wrapper. One of these wrappers could be wrapped by a C# library.
 It is also possible to create a native C# wrapper (that knows the GPSD TCP protocoll) I believe.
What do you think, which is the best approach?

Schmidt András



Koen Kooi írta:
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>> Hi!
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>> I am developing a cross platform Map viewer and GPS navigation
>> application, called YAMA (yamamap.sourceforge.net).
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>> It is written in C# and I am going to port it to OpenMoko. Is it
>> possible now to read the GPS information (NMEA data for example) with
>> Mono. If not what sould be implemented to make it possible?
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> Having application parse NMEA and friend is a BIG waste of battery and
> processing power. A better idea would be to use the dbus interface of
> geoclue[1], gypsy[2] or even gpsd[3]. Otherwise we'll end up with half a
>  dozen apps crunching on NMEA seperately instead of having a daemon
> parsing it once and making the position + error available.
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> regards,
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> Koen
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> [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue
> [2] http://svn.o-hand.com/view/gypsy/
> [3] http://gpsd.berlios.de
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