Stuart Davenport wrote: > My point in all this is actually that I ordered a USB GPS Receiver and
I just bought one myself a couple of weeks ago. They sell them at 10-13 euro on computer fairs these days, that's too cheap to not buy one... ;) > it wont arrive for another two weeks, being my impatient self, I am > writing an app for my iPhone to broadcast its GPS location over the > network to my laptop. I then want to get this data into the NMEA > format and push this data onto a PTY - this will in-effect replace the > USB GPS Receiver and the GPS software can read it :) Well, on normal linux/unix systems it would be easy, as in general applications there use 'gpsd'[1] to access GPS data, which you can then access from every application (instead of one application monopolizing the serial port) and it even supports access over TCP/IP. I don't know if gpsd works on Mac OS X[2] and the iPhone *and* with your application though (it doesn't emulate a serial port, so I think not...). Applications shouldn't monopolize a resource like a GPS without giving access to the data for others (like gpsd does)... [1] <http://gpsd.berlios.de/> [2] well, [1] says that it does, but is not officially supported -- JanC -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
