This is going to be truly excellent... if I can just make it work.

OK I've installed as specified and the server will set there burbling to itself, spewing out NMEA co-ords (screenshot1.jpg, attached).

However the co-ords never seem to make it to the nmea.kml file, which is still full of demo locations (Australia, anyone? :-) )

Any suggestions as to what might be going wrong? As a possible pointer, the installation steps:

Open your favorite browser.
Type in address http://127.0.0.1/ and the default.kml should turn up on your browser.
Type in address http://127.0.0.1/nmea.kml and my nmea.kml should turn up on your browser.

don't work for me - instead I get my IIS localhost pages. Any suggestions?

Also, could you please add COM ports 6-10, for those of us using USB-to-Serial adaptors...?

Thanks for a fantastic little app.


Alastair

OK, I've played a little more and I manage to get a spectacular error (screenshot2.jpg attached)...!

Has anyone seen this before?


Alastair

OK... I've also tried putting the files in my IIS root (wwwroot) folder; that way I can indeed view the nmea.kml file through my web browser, but it still doesn't update with my actual information (it remains with the pre-populated data)...

So I'm going to take them out of the webserver root and put them back in Program Files somewhere, for now.


Alastair

Hi John, Thanks for the wee tool very much appreciated all I need now is to get my head round it as I am new to the GPS scene and any tips would be most greatfull I have a wee pda loox 720 with a gps that slips into the miniport. I will read and try the prog out. I have Tom Tom 4 installed but I doubpt if that will help with your prog. I gather from what I read that I will be able to track my pda with the software you provided. I will experiment over the weekend thanks again.

AI115
It seems you already have a server running on your machine. I don't know what an IIS local server is but that sounds like the problem.

I set the address so that it would work on any machine (as long as there is not a server running already)

regards

John Scott

A bread-crumb trail might be interesting, but there are other ways to do it... I tend to post-process the data (as my PC is fixed, and with the gps attached, it doesn't exactly move much!) i.e., I take the track log, convert it to a kml file, and display that. I use it for road trips and ultralight flights.
I'm also working on an app that takes APRS data (ham radio-enabled vehicle tracking, see findu.com), and display it on GE, but I haven't figured out all the tricks yet (still trying to write a file to 127.0.0.1!). If I get it going, I'll post a link to the app on the BBS.

Sorry, IIS is Internet Information Server, Microsoft's web server.

My main problem seems to be that the .exe is not feeding my GPS co-ordinates to the nmea.kml file. Have you come across this issue before?


Alastair

Excellent, just what a GPS fan needs ;-)
Probably obvious to most but it took me a while to figure out you had to activate time-based and view-base refresh for the cursotsto have an impact. My laptop does jump up to 100% CPU use though with these settings.

My setup is an IBM X31 and Bluetooth GPS by the way. With 3G it might be possible to navigate full time !

sorry for my basic question, but I'm just a beginner.

If mi Google Earth doesn't run without internet connection, will this gps-tracker run without that connection? I have not connection outdoors.

Thanks in advance.

AI115,
Having the same symptoms you are having...the nmea strings are coming in, my co-rds show up in the status bar, and My Marker puts me somewhere in Australia,and if i let it run too long the 0.8 integer shows up about a hundered times.
I guess it because when i open IE and go to http://127.0.0.1 i cant bring up the default kml. ..... any suggestions