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authorGary E. Miller <gem@rellim.com>2018-11-01 15:17:45 -0700
committerGary E. Miller <gem@rellim.com>2018-11-01 15:30:08 -0700
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www/NMEA: Sort talker ID lists.
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@@ -277,24 +277,23 @@ the following are well known:
.Common talker IDs
|================================================================
-|GP | Global Positioning System receiver
-|LC | Loran-C receiver
-|II | Integrated Instrumentation
-|IN | Integrated Navigation
-|EC | Electronic Chart Display & Information System (ECDIS)
+|BD | BeiDou (China)
|CD | Digital Selective Calling (DSC)
+|EC | Electronic Chart Display & Information System (ECDIS)
|GA | Galileo Positioning System
+|GB | BeiDou (China)
|GL | GLONASS, according to IEIC 61162-1
|GN | Mixed GPS and GLONASS data, according to IEIC 61162-1
-|GB | BeiDou (China)
-|BD | BeiDou (China)
+|GP | Global Positioning System receiver
+|II | Integrated Instrumentation
+|IN | Integrated Navigation
+|LC | Loran-C receiver
|QZ | QZSS regional GPS augmentation system (Japan)
|================================================================
-LC - Loran-C is a marine navigation system run by the U.S. government,
-which is planning to shut it down in favor of GPS. Some non-Loran
-devices emit GLL but use this talker ID for backward-compatibility
-reasons, so it may outlast the actual Loran system.
+EC -- ECDIS is a specialized geographical information system intended
+to support professional maritime navigation. NMEA talker units
+meeting the ECDIS standard use this prefix. Some of these emit GLL.
II - II is emitted by the NMEA interfaces of several widely-used lines
of marine-navigation electronics. One is the AutoHelm system by
@@ -303,10 +302,6 @@ devices.
IN -- Some Garmin GPS units use an IN talker ID.
-EC -- ECDIS is a specialized geographical information system intended
-to support professional maritime navigation. NMEA talker units
-meeting the ECDIS standard use this prefix. Some of these emit GLL.
-
CD -- Modern marine VHF radios use conventions collectively known as
Digital Selective Calling (DSC). These radios typically take data
from a local position indicating device. This data is used in
@@ -320,6 +315,11 @@ LC talker prefix for this purpose. Otherwise they use the CD prefix.
A vessel's nav system is likely to have both CD and some other
position indicating talker on its bus(es).
+LC - Loran-C is a marine navigation system run by the U.S. government,
+which is planning to shut it down in favor of GPS. Some non-Loran
+devices emit GLL but use this talker ID for backward-compatibility
+reasons, so it may outlast the actual Loran system.
+
Until the U.S. Coast Guard terminated the Omega Navigation System in
1997, another common talker prefix was "OM" for an Omega Navigation
System receiver.
@@ -347,6 +347,7 @@ for them may be present in the GPSD project.
|CX | Communications - Scanning Receiver
|DE | DECCA Navigation (obsolete)
|DF | Direction Finder
+|DM | Velocity Sensor, Speed Log, Water, Magnetic
|DU | Duplex repeater station
|EC | Electronic Chart Display & Information System (ECDIS)
|EP | Emergency Position Indicating Beacon (EPIRB)
@@ -372,7 +373,6 @@ for them may be present in the GPSD project.
|U# | '#' is a digit 0 ... 9; User Configured
|UP | Microprocessor controller
|VD | Velocity Sensor, Doppler, other/general
-|DM | Velocity Sensor, Speed Log, Water, Magnetic
|VW | Velocity Sensor, Speed Log, Water, Mechanical
|WI | Weather Instruments
|YC | Transducer - Temperature (obsolete)