January 2007 Entries

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:...

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