GPS NMEA Toolkit from Accord provides a comprehensive Application Programming Interface (API) for software developers to interface their Windows applications with standard GPS receivers.

Applications that require real-time GPS receiver data can use the API to interface with standard GPS receivers without having to worry about the complexity of handling the serial port, extraction of the GPS data from the NMEA messages and performance analysis of the receiver. The Toolkit supports
most commonly used NMEA messages from a GPS receiver. It provides all the required services to read the GPS data from the serial port and update the application with latest GPS data in the real-time mode and analyze the receiver¿s performance. Stored NMEA data can also be read from
files to carry out analysis through API function calls.

The Toolkit is provided as a Dynamically Linked Library (DLL), which can be accessed by any Windows based application through API calls. The Toolkit includes examples with complete source code for the applications.

NMEA is a GPS receiver data format standard developed by National Marine Electronics Association (from which NMEA gets its name) to permit ready and satisfactory data communication between electronic marine instruments and navigation equipment when interconnected via an appropriate system. These standards are intended to facilitate interconnection and interchangeability of
equipment, minimizing misunderstanding and confusion between manufacturers of equipment. GPS receivers use NMEA data format only to transmit the GPS output data to other interfacing equipment.GPS NMEA Toolkit includes a host of services using which the software developers can create a quick and easy interface for their Windows applications with standard GPS receivers.

Using the Toolkit, the software developers can:


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• GPS DLL 1.
  The GPS DLL is a standard Windows 32 bits DLL that allows a Visual Basic program to receive and decode NMEA sentences from a GPS receiver.

• GDMTools SDK - GPS-Bibliothek 3.
  The most outstanding feature is the high modularity of the components that enable integration of GPS-receivers into own software products

• ZylGPSReceiver 3.07
  ZylGPSReceiver is a Delphi/CBuilder component that communicates with a serial GPS receiver. It returns latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, heading and many other parameters of the position. This component works with any NMEA compatible receiver...

• ZylNMEAGenerator 1.56
  ZylNMEAGenerator is a Delphi component that transforms position data in NMEA format

• ZylGPSSimulator 1.33
  ZylGPSSimulator is a Delphi GPS receiver simulator component. It creates a virtual serial port, converts the position parameters in NMEA format and writes them to the virtual port. The user can set parameters like latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, heading and transmit them to the port. With the help of a mapping software it's possible to watch...

• HS GPSDLL Library 1.2
  HsGpsDll is a Windows Dynamic Link Library which provides access to any NMEA-183 compliant GPS receiver via a serial communications port

• GPS Clock 1.0.001
  TimeTools GPS Clock Software is a freeware utility that runs on any Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 workstation or server

• GPS Express Standard Edition 3.x
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• Virtual GPS 1.39
  GPS simulator software