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Reputation: 1835

Does longitude/latitude info come directly from GNSS chip on Android devices?

I'm trying to directly communicate with the GNSS chip on my device and I am not clear whether the RAW GNSS information is coming directly from the GNSS chip or not. I have used the application provided in the link and it seems to read longitude/latitude information.

Is this information directly coming from the GNSS chip? Further, is the GNSS driver enough to extract this information? Or is longitude/latitude info calculated based on GNSS raw data? If it's the latter, how do I calculate longitude/latitude from raw GNSS (a reference would be sufficient)?

Note: I am not interested in very high accuracy location nor am I interested in indoors location retrieval (using Wi-Fi and Carrier services). I want to record the GPS (or Glonass or whatever) and save it as longitude/latitude format.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 571

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 1835

Apparently, GPS gives the information. I have found a partial answer here. (this is for GPS, it does not include other GNSS chips like Glonass and Galileo).

Apparently, the GPS hardware outputs results following NMEA format. From the page:

GPS is a commonly used constellation of GNSS satellites. GPS hardware typically reports location information as ASCII strings in the NMEA standard format. Each line of data is a comma-separated list of data values known as a sentence. While each GPS module may choose to report different portions of the NMEA protocol, most devices send one or more of the following sentences:

  • GPGGA (Fix Information): Includes position fix, altitude, timestamp, and satellite metadata.

  • GPGLL (Geographic Latitude/Longitude): Includes position fix and timestamp.

  • GPRMC (Recommended Minimum Navigation): Includes position fix, speed, timestamp, and navigation metadata.

Therefore, GPS driver is sufficient to give longitude/latitude information.

Upvotes: 0

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