Acquiring Locations from a GPS Bluetooth Receiver

Hi,

I have a Sony Ericsson K800i Mobile. I am interested in buying a
Bluetooth GPS receiver so as to be able to acquire the location
points.

I am interested in writing the application using GIS myself, so I am
just interested in how the coordinates are transmitted. I think I
have
to write the java application myself right? All I just want is some
reference to a library, an RFC or something which specifies how the
coordinates can be passed from the Bluetooth dongle to the Mobile.

The Bluetooth dongle I am thinking of buying is this : http://
cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110086017097t

Thanks and regards

Matthew

Yancho wrote:

> I have a Sony Ericsson K800i Mobile. I am interested in buying
> a Bluetooth GPS receiver so as to be able to acquire the
> location points.
>
> I am interested in writing the application using GIS myself,
> so I am just interested in how the coordinates are
> transmitted. I think I have to write the java application
> myself right? All I just want is some reference to a library,
> an RFC or something which specifies how the coordinates can be
> passed from the Bluetooth dongle to the Mobile.
>
> The Bluetooth dongle I am thinking of buying is this : http://
> cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110086017097t

Try a google search for "NMEA sentences".

John

John Henderson wrote:
> Yancho wrote:
>
>> I have a Sony Ericsson K800i Mobile. I am interested in buying
>> a Bluetooth GPS receiver so as to be able to acquire the
>> location points.
>>
>> I am interested in writing the application using GIS myself,
>> so I am just interested in how the coordinates are
>> transmitted. I think I have to write the java application
>> myself right? All I just want is some reference to a library,
>> an RFC or something which specifies how the coordinates can be
>> passed from the Bluetooth dongle to the Mobile.

> Try a google search for "NMEA sentences".

And for the Java Bluetooth API, "JSR-82".

Michael

On Feb 4, 2:33 pm, michael.ma...@gmx.de (Michael Mauch) wrote:
> John Henderson wrote:
> > Yancho wrote:
>
> >> I have a Sony Ericsson K800i Mobile. I am interested in buying
> >> a Bluetooth GPS receiver so as to be able to acquire the
> >> location points.
>
> >> I am interested in writing the application using GIS myself,
> >> so I am just interested in how the coordinates are
> >> transmitted. I think I have to write the java application
> >> myself right? All I just want is some reference to a library,
> >> an RFC or something which specifies how the coordinates can be
> >> passed from the Bluetooth dongle to the Mobile.
> > Try a google search for "NMEA sentences".
>
> And for the Java Bluetooth API, "JSR-82".
>
> Michael

thanks alot guys