Can I capture GPS data from Tomtom ?

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Thomas Christiansen

Is it possible from .NETCF to capture the current position from my Tomtom3
Bluetooth device without having the Tomtom SDK ? If so, can someone please
guide me in the right direction.

It is my understanding that the Tomtom 2 SDK does not work with Tomtom 3.

Thanks in advance

Thomas
 
The TomTom2 SDK does work with TT3. Assuming you have a fairly standard NMEA
compliant GPS device you could attach directly to the device using a virtual
bluetooth com port and retrieve and parse the information yourself. Note
that you won't be able to use TomTom to retrieve the GPS data and your own
app at the same time, so if you plan on using TomTom in conjunction with
your app you may be better off getting the position through the TomTom
APIs - you'll also have the benefit of having the latitude, longitude,
direction and speed already parsed from the nmea strings returned by the
device.

Peter
 
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