GPS

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Mobile 5 GPS Intermediate Driver GetGpsPosition

Technorati Tags: windows mobile,GPS As new mobile devices are released with built in GPS we see that the implementation of the GPS Intermediate Driver can very from one to another. A key area is the format for the latitude and longitude that GetGpsPosition returns.  On previous devices this has always been returned in raw NMEA format, but on HTC devices they return decimal degrees (formats ref: http://home.online.no/~sigurdhu/Deg_formats.htm) HTC say that "This is the API recommended by Microsoft" which is fair enough, but I think perhaps the documentation needs to be stronger to make this explicit. (ref: GPSGetPosition:...

GPS Sample update

Technorati Tags: windows mobile,gps In my previous blog (yes I know it's been a while!) I mentioned that there is a bug in the MSDN GPS sample for windows mobile. Turns out that is not the end of the story. There is a further bug relating to the way the code deals with degrees when the longitude or latitude is -0.xxx which requires a refactoring to sort out.  The refactoring essential needs to make sure the DegreesMinutesSeconds class returns whether the Degrees element is negative.  If anyone wants the code let me know. In addition to...

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