Welcome to GPSDirect NMEA Sensor Driver for Windows 7.
A driver that maps any COM-based NMEA-compatible GPS hardware to a Windows 7 Sensor.

Windows 7 introduces the Sensor API which provides an abstraction to use many sensors, and the Location API which provides a way for applications to know the location of the user. However most GPS devices come with a bluetooth or a usb interface without a Windows 7 sensor driver.

Here is a user-level driver (UMDF) that can read a COM port that contains GPS NMEA data and map it to a Windows 7 GPS Sensor for your Windows 7 applications to be gps-sensor-aware. The driver also provides ILocation* information for Location-Aware applications. Using this driver enables all Windows 7 aware applications to get GPS information without directly accessing the GPS hardware.

In case you do not own actual GPS hardware, the driver can still be tested in "Simulation" mode.

• Features
• Download
• How to install
• Using in Turbo GPS

The driver is free for non commercial usage. If you are interested in C++ code advice and/or you want to include it in your commercial Windows 7 applications, then contact me via the Business Support Forum here. You may also contact me if you want to redistribute the driver with your products.

© Michael Chourdakis.