minmea/README.md
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# minmea, the lightweight GPS NMEA 0183 parser library
Minmea is a minimalistic GPS parser library intended for resource-constrained
platforms, especially microcontrollers and other embedded systems.
## Features
* Written in ISO C99.
* No dynamic memory allocation.
* No floating point usage in the core library.
* Supports both fixed and floating point values.
* One source file and one header - can't get any simpler.
* Easily extendable to support new sentences.
* Complete with a test suite and static analysis.
## Supported sentences
* ``$GPRMC``
* ``$GPGGA``
Adding support for more sentences is trivial; see ``minmea.c`` source.
## Example
```c
char line[MINMEA_MAX_LENGTH];
while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdin) != NULL) {
printf("%s", line);
switch (minmea_type(line)) {
case MINMEA_GPRMC: {
struct minmea_gprmc frame;
if (minmea_parse_gprmc(&frame, line)) {
printf("+++ raw coordinates and speed: (%d/%d,%d/%d) %d/%d\n",
frame.latitude, frame.latitude_scale,
frame.longitude, frame.longitude_scale,
frame.speed, frame.speed_scale);
printf("+++ fixed-point coordinates and speed scaled to three decimal places: (%d,%d) %d\n",
minmea_rescale(frame.latitude, frame.latitude_scale, 1000),
minmea_rescale(frame.longitude, frame.longitude_scale, 1000),
minmea_rescale(frame.speed, frame.speed_scale, 1000));
printf("+++ floating point degree coordinates and speed: (%f,%f) %f\n",
minmea_coord(frame.latitude, frame.latitude_scale),
minmea_coord(frame.longitude, frame.longitude_scale),
minmea_float(frame.speed, frame.speed_scale));
}
} break;
case MINMEA_GPGGA: {
struct minmea_gpgga frame;
if (minmea_parse_gpgga(&frame, line)) {
printf("$GPGGA: fix quality: %d\n", frame.fix_quality);
}
} break;
default: {
} break;
}
}
```
## Integration with your project
Simply add ``minmea.[ch]`` to your project, ``#include "minmea.h"`` and you're
good to go.
## Running unit tests
Building and running the tests requires the following:
* Check Framework (http://check.sourceforge.net/).
* Clang Static Analyzer (http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/).
If you have both in your ``$PATH``, running the tests should be as simple as
typing ``make``.
## Bugs
There are plenty. Report them on GitHub, or - even better - open a pull request.