GPSGate

From OpenStreetMap

Introduction

GpsGate allows a GPS device to be shared by multiple applications.

• Developer : Franson
• License Type : Commercial with 14 day trial
• Opensource : No
• Target platform : Pocket PC and Windows
• Price: Depends on volume, but for one-off $12.95 for Express and $39.95 for Standard

Features

• Redirect GPS input to virtual serial ports, Bluetooth and others
• Can handle multiple GPS inputs
• Optional filtering of GPS NMEA data
• Recording and playback of NMEA data
• GPS simulator

The Express version can only feed two applications and lacks recording/playback/simulation options.

Applications

This application is very useful if you want to run a route finder, e.g. Tomtom, as well as logging the route in another application.

If any application is having problems handling the volume of GPS data, e.g. on a slow PDA, then it can be filtered to only include the essential GPS data and to only pass it on at given intervals.