Magellan MobileMapper CX - Hiking GPS Receiver, Getting Started Manual

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GPS Status Menu Bar
Connecting the Internal GPS Receiver to
your Application
As explained in GPS Ports Configuration on page 46 , the
COM2 port in MobileMapper CX is a virtual COM port named
“GPS VSP Output” and has fixed settings: 57600 bauds, 8
data bits, 1 stop bit and no parity bit.
This virtual port will input GPS positions to off-the-shelf Win-
dows CE mobile mapping applications running on MobileMap-
per CX. To do this, you just have to select “COM2” in your
mobile mapping application as the source of GPS data.
COM2 can therefore provide the mobile mapping application
with NMEA-formatted data coming from the internal GPS re-
ceiver. You can define the NMEA sentences you would like to
output through this port from the
NMEA
tab in the GPS Ports
Configuration utility (see page 46 ).
Menu Sub-Menu Function
File
Configura-
tion>Units
Allows you to set the units used for dis-
tance and speed, for altitude/elevation
and the format for latitude and longitude.
Exit
Use this command to quit the GPS Status
utility.
Tools Log>Start
Starts logging of NMEA data. Asks for a
log file to be created before starting log-
ging data.
Log>Stop Stops data logging and closes the log file.
Stats>Enable
When checked, this option enables the
Statistics window to display data.
Stats>Reset
Resets the data shown in the Statistics
window (zeroes all results).
Stats>Setup Avg
Thresholds
Sets data thresholds used for calculating
the averaged positions displayed on the
Stats tab (see screen opposite).
Help About GPS Status...
Displays the current software version of
the GPS Status utility.