{"id":266,"date":"2006-04-15T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-15T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-01-07T18:20:06","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T02:20:06","slug":"new-toy-bluetooth-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/znark.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/new-toy-bluetooth-gps\/","title":{"rendered":"New Toy: Bluetooth GPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to 45\u00c2\u00b0 28&#8242; 18&#8243; N, 122\u00c2\u00b0 39&#8242; 11&#8243; W.  I got a new toy this week, a [GlobalSat BT-338](http:\/\/www.globalsat.com.tw\/english\/products_detail.php?p_id=74) Bluetooth GPS unit.  It is basically a matchbox-sized brick with a couple of LEDs, a GPS receiver, and Bluetooth radio.  <\/p>\n<p>It looks like it is all batter, with one that is supposed to last all day.  It also seems to be more sensitive than my old Garmin GPS-12XL, and got a signal inside a building, in my pocket, in my bag, and under trees while raining, all places where the old receiver had problems.  I had tried connecting my old receiver to my old Clie PDA through a serial cable but that wasn&#8217;t practical.<\/p>\n<p>My Treo can connect to it by Bluetooth and programs can get their position.  I have been using [Mapopolis](http:\/\/www.mapopolis.com\/) for mapping, and [Cetus GPS](http:\/\/www.cetusgps.dk\/) for general GPS routes and tracks.  The routing and driving directions with Mapopolis seems to work well and it has the ability to reroute from the current GPS position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to 45\u00c2\u00b0 28&#8242; 18&#8243; N, 122\u00c2\u00b0 39&#8242; 11&#8243; W. I got a new toy this week, a [GlobalSat BT-338](http:\/\/www.globalsat.com.tw\/english\/products_detail.php?p_id=74) Bluetooth GPS unit. It is basically a matchbox-sized brick with a couple of LEDs, a GPS receiver, and Bluetooth radio. It looks like it is all batter, with one that is supposed to last all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/znark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/znark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/znark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/znark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/znark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/znark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/znark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/znark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/znark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}