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author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2010-12-20 11:43:06 -0500 |
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committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2010-12-20 11:43:06 -0500 |
commit | d93ae80583fb15e314302212a0ed036aede448aa (patch) | |
tree | 095e0b6cae10901dfc3145fe13bd9922949c5c9b /www | |
parent | fa295807485b8bb3cc858dda5218483dabd21760 (diff) | |
download | gpsd-d93ae80583fb15e314302212a0ed036aede448aa.tar.gz |
Typo fixes and clarifications.
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diff --git a/www/NMEA.txt b/www/NMEA.txt index 11c7ad47..e5061421 100644 --- a/www/NMEA.txt +++ b/www/NMEA.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ = NMEA Revealed = Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> -v2.3, Mar 2010 +v2.4, Dec 2010 This is a list of NMEA 0183 sentences with field descriptions. It is primarily intended to help people understand GPS reports. @@ -50,9 +50,10 @@ because NMEA expects many navigational devices to feed a common serial bus. The darta encoding is ASCII with the high data bit not used and zeroed. Consumer-grade GPS sensors normally report over an RS232 port or a USB -port emulating an RS232 serial device. Baud rate is variable, with -9600 probably the most common. Most deviveces use 8N1; there are -rare exceptions that use 7N2 (San Jose Navigation) or even 8O1 (Trimble). +port emulating an RS232 serial device; some use Bluetooth. Baud rate +is variable, with 9600 probably the most common. Most devices use +8N1; there are rare exceptions that use 7N2 (San Jose Navigation) or +even 8O1 (Trimble). == Sentence Mixes and NMEA Variations == @@ -116,8 +117,8 @@ no valid data for it. However, many receivers violate this. It's common, for example, to see latitude/longitude/altitude figures filled with zeros when the GPS has no valid data. -Date and time in GPS is computed as number of weeks from 6 January -1980 plus number of seconds into the week. +Date and time in GPS is computed as number of weeks from the zero +second of 6 January 1980, plus number of seconds into the week. == Error status indications |