Holux M1000 & gpsd

[Scott Allen]

On Fri Jul 25,2008 04:00:31 PM Jamon Camisso wrote:
> Here's an example GPGGA sentence from the front patio at the 
> linuxcaffe:
> 234306.000,4339.6063,N,07925.0513,W,2,11,0.82,113.2,M,-35.1,M,0000,0000*5C
> 
> Punch 43.396060 -079.250503 into Google Earth and that is smack in 
> the middle of Lake Ontario.

You're not interpreting the lat./long. coordinates from the GGA 
sentence correctly.
 From the link you provided:

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Where a numeric latitude or longitude is given, the two digits
immediately to the left of the decimal point are whole minutes, to the
right are decimals of minutes, and the remaining digits to the left of
the whole minutes are whole degrees.

Eg. 4533.35 is 45 degrees and 33.35 minutes. ".35" of a minute is
exactly 21 seconds.

Eg. 16708.033 is 167 degrees and 8.033 minutes. ".033" of a minute is
about 2 seconds.
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When I enter your example coordinates into my GPS receiver I get a 
position on Grace St. about 20 metres north of Harbord St.

For Google Maps (and presumably Google Earth), enter N43 39.606 W079 
25.0513
Note the space after the first 2 digits to the left of the decimal 
point.


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