{"id":121,"date":"2006-01-14T14:32:32","date_gmt":"2006-01-14T19:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=121"},"modified":"2006-01-14T14:32:32","modified_gmt":"2006-01-14T19:32:32","slug":"gps-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/121\/gps-display\/","title":{"rendered":"GPS Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, there are a large number of cheap bluetooth GPS devices on the market. These devices allow you to connect to the device wirelessly, which is great for when you&#8217;re driving and don&#8217;t want cables draped all over the car.<\/p>\n<p>However, what happens when you can&#8217;t drag your computer out to act as a display of your position? No bluetooth GPS on the market today for under $500 has a display of any kind. When you consider that these things can be had for $70, that makes purchasing one go from likely, to ridiculous. What&#8217;s the point of a handheld, easy to use GPS if you can&#8217;t use it to see where you are?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/symbian\/locative\/gpsdisplay\/ss0.png\" style=\"float:right; margin:0px 0px 10px 10px;\" alt=\"GPSDisplay Screenshot\" \/>If you&#8217;ve been asking this question, I&#8217;ve got software which has an answer for you. <a href=\"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/symbian\/locative\/gpsdisplay\/\">GPSDisplay<\/a> will allow you to connect to NMEA compatible Bluetooth GPS devices and display your position fix. It is written entirely in Python, using NMEA code from <a href=\"http:\/\/discussion.forum.nokia.com\/forum\/showthread.php?s=c9700af706de763105666122a37e1175&#038;threadid=54857\">Forum Nokia<\/a>. It requires only that you first install <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forum.nokia.com\/main\/0,,034-821,00.html\">Python for Series 60<\/a> on your device, and should work on all first and second generation Series 60 phones.  Simply download the .sis file, send it to your phone, and you&#8217;ll be all set to go &#8212; you can use your phone as a display for that new cheap Bluetooth GPS you bought, and stop dragging your laptop out into the woods to go Geocaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, there are a large number of cheap bluetooth GPS devices on the market. These devices allow you to connect to the device wirelessly, which is great for when you&#8217;re driving and don&#8217;t want cables draped all over the car. However, what happens when you can&#8217;t drag your computer out to act as a display [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,47,9,12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bluetooth","category-gps-devices","category-mobile-platform","category-python","category-symbian-python"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}