gps logging program

**soundman98** · 07-15-2009, 11:41 AM

i have been looking for cheap/free gps logging program to get started logging, and came across this little program:

http://www.aerog.com/software.shtml

it is free to try for 30 days, but costs $30 after that.

so far, i have been very impressed with it, it is a very feature packed program, and allows you to modify almost all aspects of what data to save, and how to log the data. the data is typically saved as *.gps, but can be opened in notepad to view the lines.

the info from the site:

GPS Logger v3.02.11*

Currently used in Europe, Asia, and the USA - GPS Logger is a simple NMEA sentence logger specifically designed for vehicle position recording and scientific GPS position recording applications.

User selectable NMEA sentences are saved in time-stamped packets allowing later analysis, interpretation, interpolation, geographic positional plots, or GPS-track re-creation. Different text file formats are menu-selectable.

Additional features include easy-to-read UTC and local time display and PC-clock to GPS synchronization.

Please read the "readme.txt" bundled in the GPS Logger download for the latest update information.

GPS Logger Features (v3.x)

Multiple serial-port capability (COM1-COM8)
Logging via a primary, filterable port and monitoring/logging of an auxiliary second port.
User-defined filters: Have a special sounder sentence you want to grab? Add it to your own database with v3.x
Independent clocks: One clock refers to UTC time delivered by the GPS, the other refers to either the local time derived by GPS time or local system time.
Many start-up automation options
Creates a Maptech .trk Track file log while logging data (optional)
Creates a UTM-coordinate log file, deriving UTM Coordinates from NMEA lat/lon coordinates on-the-fly (optional)
Basic Log filename can be specified via a command-line argument
Starting with v3.02.9 GPSLogger supports up to com port 50
...and many more features

**malcom2073** · 07-15-2009, 12:02 PM

To be honest I just wrote my own that collects raw NMEA sentences in a text file. Took me all of about 10 minutes in c#. Once they come up with what data the format should be stored as pre-uploading to the server I'm sure some people will come out with programs here.

**soundman98** · 07-15-2009, 02:24 PM

Originally Posted by malcom2073

To be honest I just wrote my own that collects raw NMEA sentences in a text file. Took me all of about 10 minutes in c#. Once they come up with what data the format should be stored as pre-uploading to the server I'm sure some people will come out with programs here.

depending on the requirements, would you mind sharing that program?

**malcom2073** · 07-15-2009, 03:49 PM

I would not mind at all. Its at home and I'm on travel so ill post it up this weekend

**Enforcer** · 07-15-2009, 04:29 PM

GPS logging is very simple.

It all depends on what you want to do with it.

Have it stored locally, sent to a website or something else.

**malcom2073** · 07-19-2009, 10:48 AM

Here's a simple GPS logger. All it does is listen to the specified COM port at the specified baud rate and output it to a file. I use this for logging my tracks so I can run them through a parsing program later to weed out the points when I don't have a fix or invalid returns etc.