Communications Specifications for the GlobalSat DG-100 GPS DataLogger
Time for one of my annual blog posts.
I recently bought a GlobalSat DG-100 GPS datalogger, which is a device that records your GPS position over time, so that you can later review those data, and do all sorts of fun things. I specifically wanted it for aviation, so you can review your flight track, and see how good your navigation is and how far off your desired track you wandered.
There are Windows drivers for the device, and only a Windows utility for extracting the recorded tracks and altering it’s preferences. Normally this would preclude a Mac user like me from buying it, however, the nice people at GlobalSat have published the specifications for communicating with the device, and some people have made their own apps for talking to it. There’s a Windows .net application for it and a linux project for talking to it as well.
I’m in the early stages of writing a Cocoa app which will do the same for Mac OS X users.
[edit] - Good lord, Google indexed this post in less than 17 minutes!
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March 7th, 2008 at 3:43 pm