[Marble-devel] Interfacing a NMEA compliant GPS device with Marble

[Dennis Nienhüser]

Hi Muiris,

which operating system are you using? For Linux chances are good that 
gpsd supports that device. Assuming your distribution compiled Marble 
with gpsd support (or you have libgps-dev installed when compiling 
yourself), all you have to do is setting gpsd as position source in the 
Location panel in Marble then.

Regards,
Dennis

Am 03.11.2013 16:57, schrieb Muiris de Buitleir:
> Hi,
> 
> Marble is my all-time favourite application for accessing OSM. I want
> a simple add-on but I've searched everywhere and can't seem to find a
> solution.
> 
> I have a GlobalSat BU-353 GPS device which is NMEA compliant. I use it
> with OpenCPN navigational charting for sailing. Simply plug the device
> into a USB port. Configure the OpenCPN software to tell it which comms
> port to expect the GPS location from and bingo! there's a symbol
> showing your current location overlaid on the chart.
> 
> I want to do exactly the same thing with Marble. Activate a means by
> which the GPS location generated by the NMEA USB connected device will
> display that location against the Marble/OSM background. Marble seem
> to have GPS functionality but I don't seem to be able to access it.
> Can you help?
> 
> Muiris de Buitleir
> 
> 
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