Serial port and GPS

SerialGPS Class

Reads coordinates from a GPS serial port

For a list of all members of this type, see SerialGPS Members.

System.Object
   serial.Serial
      serial.SerialGPS

[Visual Basic]
Public Class SerialGPS
    Inherits Serial
[C#]
public class SerialGPS : Serial

Thread Safety

Public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are safe for multithreaded operations. Instance members are not guaranteed to be thread-safe.

Remarks

Reads serial port using the method parseNMEA(), which is passed to the porperty RdLineCb to the base class. Each line successfully read from the serial port is parsed using Utils.fromGGA() and for the coordinates, if any, the delegate set by CoordDelegate is called. Only NMEA GGA sequences currently supported.

Example

The following example reads GPS coordinates from COM4, 9600, 8N1, WGS84 is used for converting geographical coordinates into UTM. The coordinates are the printed to standard output.

[C#]

            using System;
            using serial;
            public class SerialGPSTest {
            private static void coordinates(double tim,
            double latitude,
            double longitude,
            double utmnorth,
            double utmeast,
            double altitude) {
            Console.WriteLine("{0} {1} {2} {3} {4} {5}",
            tim, latitude, longitude,
            utmnorth, utmeast, altitude);
            }
            public static void Main() {
            SerialGPS s;
            s = new SerialGPS();
            s.CoordCb = new CoordDelegate(SerialGPSTest.coordinates);
            s.Open("COM4", 9600, 8, Parity.None, StopBits.One, Datum.WGS84);
            Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to close"); Console.ReadLine();
            s.Close();
            }
            }
            
The code can be compiled using:
            csc -out:test.exe SerialGPSTest.cs SeriaGPS.cs Serial.cs Utils.cs
            gmcs -out:test.exe SerialGPSTest.cs SeriaGPS.cs Serial.cs Utils.cs
            

Requirements

Namespace: serial

Assembly: sgps (in sgps.exe)

See Also

SerialGPS Members | serial Namespace | Utils.fromGGA() | Utils.toUTM()