GPS Tracking a little OT

[Walter Vaughan]

ivan wrote:

> We have experimented with a device that records the data and connects 
> directly to the laptop.  We were not successful on getting this 
> information to download to the laptop so we were not able to get it into 
> filePro either.  Apparently the code these devices uses is protected 
> with a high degree of secrecy from the vendors of these products.

NMEA-0183 ?

This is not rocket science. Really.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NMEA_0183

I know people using this http://www.gpsdrive.de/
as well as http://postgis.refractions.net/

--
Walter