http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:40:11 GMT DZone Snippets: nmea code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4782 Not tested extensivly, use with caution! I used an LD-1W and it seems to work alright with this parser. <br /> <br /><code> <br />class GPGGAParser(object): <br /> import logging <br /> <br /> def __init__(self, sentance): <br /> import time, logging <br /> <br /> logging.debug("GPPGAParser started") <br /> logging.debug("Trying to parse: "+sentance) <br /> (self.format, <br /> self.utc, <br /> self.latitude, <br /> self.northsouth, <br /> self.longitude, <br /> self.eastwest, <br /> self.quality, <br /> self.number_of_satellites_in_use, <br /> self.horizontal_dilution, <br /> self.altitude, <br /> self.above_sea_unit, <br /> self.geoidal_separation, <br /> self.geoidal_separation_unit, <br /> self.data_age, <br /> self.diff_ref_stationID) = sentance.split(",") <br /> <br /> latitude_in=float(self.latitude) <br /> longitude_in=float(self.longitude) <br /> if self.northsouth == 'S': <br /> latitude_in = -latitude_in <br /> if self.eastwest == 'W': <br /> longitude_in = -longitude_in <br /> <br /> latitude_degrees = int(latitude_in/100) <br /> latitude_minutes = latitude_in - latitude_degrees*100 <br /> <br /> longitude_degrees = int(longitude_in/100) <br /> longitude_minutes = longitude_in - longitude_degrees*100 <br /> <br /> self.latitude = latitude_degrees + (latitude_minutes/60) <br /> self.longitude = longitude_degrees + (longitude_minutes/60) <br /> <br /> self.timeOfFix = time.strftime("%H:%M:%S", time.strptime(self.utc.split(".")[0],"%H%M%S")) <br /> self.altitude = float(self.altitude) <br /> logging.debug("GPPGAParser finished") <br /></code> Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:12:36 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4782 ejot (Magnus Persson)