The GPS shield provides the hardware interface to the GPS device. Now, you can access the GPS data from inside the Arduino IDE. To do this, perform the following steps:
dGPS
file and copy the dGPS
file folder to your Arduino's libraries directory. You'll also need to download another three examples from this page. These aren't really set up to put in the Examples directory of dGPS and open automatically using the File | Examples process, but you can simply open them by navigating to File | Open command.These are the GPS readings from the device. As noted in the previous section, Status tells you whether or not your device is locked to enough satellites. In this case, V indicates that our device is not. You may need to go outside a building to connect with enough satellites to get a valid reading. A valid reading would look like the following screenshot:
The library for this device is quite extensive, and you can get back much more than your position. In fact, Example 2: Calculating GPS distance to destination, azimuth (angle of travel) to destination. (zip) that you can download from www.dexterindustries.com/manual/arduino-shields/gps-shield/ will show you how to use the library to enter a desired latitude and longitude value and return the distance as well as the angle of travel to the desired location.
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