GPS Datalogger

jakethesnake

Hi,
I just bought a Parallax GPS module and would like to take on a project with it-build a simple GPS device that logs the coordinates, altitude, and time, for at least 5 hours in on-board memory, then plug it in to a computer and view all the info on Google Earth. Can i write a program for my BASIC Stamp 2 that will write the files onto the memory, then have them in the correct format for Google Earth? Anyone done this before? Thank you!
-jakethesnake

WBA Consulting

If I was Chris Savage, I would say "Been there, done that!" Check out his GPS Datalogger Kit in the Parallax Store and the matching Forum Thread that has all the details about it

Kevin Wood

The March 2002 Nuts & Volts column was about interfacing a GPS to a BS2p...

http://www.parallax.com/Resources/NutsVoltsColumns/NutsVoltsVolume3/tabid/445/Default.aspx

There are 2-3 more articles related to GPS in the Nuts & Volts archives.

SRLM

The BS2 itself doesn't have enough memory to log much data. Perhaps if the GPS doesn't move much you could get it all in with some compression, but most likely you'll need to go with external data storage like the USB datalogger or another EEPROM. If you go with a different BS2 module (such as the BS2e) then you could use the onboard EEPROM to log the data.

As for the Google earth portion, based on this thread you should be able to make a simple csv and have that be imported.