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Using my phone's GPS with a laptop app

How can I use my phone's GPS with a program like Streets and Trips or Street Atlas?
I often use my laptop while on the road (the wife drives) and would prefer a better option than TT6 Navigator.

you might have to get a USB gps puck for the laptop

GPS
Does that mean it can not be done? I have an interest in this also.

you need...
you need to expose your GPS to an external serial BT port. I think there is a tool called BlueGPS that does this. You can then use BT on your laptop to get the NMEA output. It makes your integrated GPS phone act like a BT GPS device for your laptop.

JonnoB said:
you need to expose your GPS to an external serial BT port. I think there is a tool called BlueGPS that does this. You can then use BT on your laptop to get the NMEA output. It makes your integrated GPS phone act like a BT GPS device for your laptop.
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I use BlueGPS with my tilt over USB and it works well, except if I try to use Internet Sharing or WMWifiRouter it disconnects the com port. I haven't been able to get BlueGPS to work with Bluetooth of Wifi yet. So it only works with programs that have the maps on the computer and not ones like GooPS that get the maps from the Internet.
Mike H

I downloaded the BlueGPS CAB, but cannot seem to get it to work.
Any specific instructions on how to get this BlueGPS work on the phone and have the laptop computer use the phones internal GPS receiver over bluetooth?
Attached is the BlueGPS installer CAB.
Thanks
Ron

Old thread...but after much investigation, I have discovered what you need is gps2blue, not BlueGPS!
gps2blue is free, and will do what is desired here.

GPS2Blue
GPS2Blue is here: http://users.skynet.be/hofinger/GPS2Blue.html
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Is this program only for PDA or is there possibility for Andoid device...

GPS device

Hello,
Is there a way to get my computer to use my tytn II as GPS device. I have MS streets installed, it accepts external GPS, can I connect it as a COM port?
Thank you

Do a search.
Also, does your computer have bluetooth? That seems to be an easy way to do this from the posts that I saw.

kimtyson said:
Do a search.
Also, does your computer have bluetooth? That seems to be an easy way to do this from the posts that I saw.
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thanks for the reply, I did do a search, however, I didn't know what terms to put in the search box. I would really appreciate if you could provide me a link. Also, my computer has BT.
Thanks

You'll need a program like GPSGate for that.

kilrah said:
You'll need a program like GPSGate for that.
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I have that program

Huh.. then use it? The GPSGate configuration wizard will ask you what GPS device to search for, select internal GPS, then on the next page in the output options choose Share over Bluetooth... that's all it takes.
Then on the PC create a bluetooth partnership if it wasn't done yet, or just refresh services, and you'll have a virtual COM port called GPSGate GPS. Connect to that.
When you're done don't forget to exit GPSGate or the GPS will run continuously when the device is on with the associated battery drain.

I love how people don't know how to search, but they know how to write out their problem. It's pretty much that easy.
kasier/tilt/whatever gps with computer.
thats what you search for.

GPS pass-through via USB/BT/WiFi?

Hi there,
I did a couple of searches but couldn't come up with anything useful to answer this question:
Is there some way to activate the Kaiser's internal GPS, convert the stream to some universal format (say, NMEA) and pass it to another computer via USB, Bluetooth or WiFi? My idea is to use the Kaiser as an external "USB mouse" like those 80-buck USB Sirfstar III units. At least for me this would open a number of interesting applications on my laptop without having to carry around another GPS device in addition to my mobile phone.
So one possible use for this would be to do live tracking on google earth, Fugawi, OziExplorer or some serious GIS.
Does anyone know if this exists? If I had more time I might try to code something, but I'm swamped at the moment
J

I know there is an app that lets you track yourself via google earth. If you search more I'm certain that was a thread about using the phone as a BT gps device.
I'm bored so I will try searching too.
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OMG in less then 60 seconds I found your answer. LOL good job searching.
http://users.skynet.be/hofinger/GPS2Blue.html

Hey, thanks for your help despite the sarcasm.
It makes quite a bit of a difference if you know what you're searching for. I was mainly searching for "usb passthrough gps" and variations on "gps passthrough" which clearly lead nowhere.
That software looks like exactly what I was looking for, thanks.
J

Bluetooth, gps, tilt
Thats all I searched for.

GPS gate allows you to use bluetooth or usb. been using it with my work laptop for navigation.

GPS2blue allows external GPS access through bluetooth and IP (wifi or GPRS).

Awesome question and software. Thanks for posting!

Tilt as gps receiver for laptop.

Is there away to use the tilt as a gps receiver for my laptop?
Thanks

I believe the easiest way is to use GPS Gate

I am interested in this too. do you have any experience with gps gate? what application is the gps able to interface with on the laptop?

I tried gps gate but could'nt get it to work with microsoft sreets and trips.basicly any software uses gps should be able to use the tilts gps.just need a better way to foward it to the laptop.also don't like having to use active sync for gps gate to locate the phone on the laptop.

There's GPS2Blue, it's free but less simple to use.

GPS2Blue works very well. But, kilrah is correct that it can be a pita to setup. After some searching I did find a nice walkthrough on this site - basically, it's all about setting the com ports correctly and weather you want it to use BT or the usb cable for transferring data. I had some problems with BT initially so I used the cable connection. Which I personally think is better anyway because it will charge your phone at the same time. I'm using this solution in a CarPC. It is awesome.

Did you actually get GPS2Blue to work over BT? I can't. Setup suggests to create an incoming COM port in the BT settings, but on my WM6.1 ROM this option doesn't exist. If I jsut choose a random BT COM port in the program (tried all) all I get is IO Exception, waiting for BT to be enabled (it is obviously on).

Disregard, found solution. For some reason they removed the incoming port config option from WM6 on, but it's still possible to add one via the registry, and once this is done it works perfectly well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2157013&postcount=23

Using at&t tilt as GPS Receiver for Laptop Turn by Turn software?

Ok I have been looking for a solutions for a long time. I want to use my shiny new Dell Mini 10 with windows 7 for turn by turn directions and i want to use my at&t tilt as the GPS receiver. So, what FREE solutions do I have? Google Earth would be sweet if it had VOICE directions.. but I know the odds of finding a free solution for that is going to be slim.
also, i keep thinking that i'll need a data connection AND a way to share the gps signal?!
bluetooth isn't an option.. at least not yet. I have to buy a BT dongle some day soon. HOPEFULLY i can find a miniscule BT USB thing so it wont stick out the side of the mini too much.
So i have 2 options for connections.. i have WIFI router on the tilt or i have to use USB. but as far as i know.. if i use usb i have to then CHOOSE between internet sharing or activesync... i need to use active sync to share the gps ports but i need internet sharing to get the data connection!!?? sooooo confused..
someone PLEASE help me
thats the situation.. to review... here are the questions i need answered.
1) what software to use on the laptop?
2) what software(s) to use on the phone?
2a) gps sharing?
2b) internet sharing?
3) how to connect the two? (usb, wifi or bt)
THANKS AHEAD OF TIME to whoever responds..
and please don't BURN me because I HAVE SEARCHED.. if you know the threads i should read then please just link me and i'll be happy to read them over..

Well, you'll need something like gps2blue
http://users.skynet.be/hofinger/GPS2Blue.html
on the tilt and Hardware Virtual Serial Port from here:
http://www.hw-group.com/products/hw_vsp/index_en.html
That will make the GPS on the Tilt look like a Serial port GPS device to the netbook.
That is the easy part. I don't think you'll find a free GPS mapping product with turn-by-turn voice commands.

Actually you will
http://www.amazegps.com/
Turn by Turn