DavidKorczynski / lwgps

Lightweight GPS NMEA parser for embedded systems

Lightweight GPS NMEA parser

Platform independent GPS NMEA parser for embedded systems.

Read first: Documentation

Features

• Written in C (C11)
• Platform independent, easy to use
• Built-in support for 4 GPS statements
  • GPGGA or GNGGA: GPS fix data
  • GPGSA or GNGSA: GPS active satellites and dillusion of position
  • GPGSV or GNGSV: List of satellites in view zone
  • GPRMC or GNRMC: Recommended minimum specific GPS/Transit data
• Optional float or double floating point units
• Low-level layer is separated from application layer, thus allows you to add custom communication with GPS device
• Works with operating systems
• Works with different communication interfaces
• User friendly MIT license

Contribute

Fresh contributions are always welcome. Simple instructions to proceed:

1. Fork Github repository
2. Follow C style & coding rules already used in the project
3. Create a pull request to develop branch with new features or bug fixes

Alternatively you may:

1. Report a bug
2. Ask for a feature request

Test

To build the code and run basic tests on your host::

    cd examples
    make test