Using my phone's GPS with a laptop app

[ParrotSquawk]

How can I use my phone's GPS with a program like Streets and Trips or Street Atlas?

I often use my laptop while on the road (the wife drives) and would prefer a better option than TT6 Navigator.

[kireol]

you might have to get a USB gps puck for the laptop

[utaustinmc]

Does that mean it can not be done? I have an interest in this also.

[JonnoB]

you need to expose your GPS to an external serial BT port. I think there is a tool called BlueGPS that does this. You can then use BT on your laptop to get the NMEA output. It makes your integrated GPS phone act like a BT GPS device for your laptop.

[holmanm]

you need to expose your GPS to an external serial BT port. I think there is a tool called BlueGPS that does this. You can then use BT on your laptop to get the NMEA output. It makes your integrated GPS phone act like a BT GPS device for your laptop.

I use BlueGPS with my tilt over USB and it works well, except if I try to use Internet Sharing or WMWifiRouter it disconnects the com port. I haven't been able to get BlueGPS to work with Bluetooth of Wifi yet. So it only works with programs that have the maps on the computer and not ones like GooPS that get the maps from the Internet.

Mike H

[lokmeup]

I downloaded the BlueGPS CAB, but cannot seem to get it to work.

Any specific instructions on how to get this BlueGPS work on the phone and have the laptop computer use the phones internal GPS receiver over bluetooth?

Attached is the BlueGPS installer CAB.

Thanks
Ron