Support for NMEA 0183 (GPS standard)
Support for the NMEA 0183 standard for serial communication with GPS devices.
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The standard itself is proprietary, but according to the Wikipedia article, it has been reverse-engineered to a degree and there are free implementations, such as gpsd:
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Blueprint information
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The GPSD daemon seems to be standard on Linux, available on Mac, and also Android. Its author has no interst whatever to make it available on Windows, though.
libgps allows queries of gpsd also on other systems. Maybe even via bluetooth (TODO: Find out how this would work on Bluetooth.) Scenario: Ask your smartphone's GPS.
On Windows, Qt5.2 brought NMEA support. We can query a directly attached device.
Work Items
Work items:
Use libgps in Linux: DONE
Use QNmeaPositionIn