First contact

After assembling the Adafruit GPS Shield, I followed this guide and checked if my GPS receiver was actually working.

When first connecting the Arduino Uno and the GPS Shield to the computer, I was not getting any data in my Serial Monitor in Arduino program... I actually used some time on this, until I realised that i had forgot to put on the jumper...

After doing this, I immediately received some signal data in the monitor, and I was thrilled :-D

I double checked the received data on Google Maps, and although the lattitude were a bit wrong (See picture), the longitude were almost spot on, so I were satisfied :-D






Data example:
$GPRMC,141251.000,A,5627.6381,N,01001.7292,E,0.10,348.55,010711,,,A*60

Update - How to read NMEA:

     RMC          Recommended Minimum sentence C
     141251       Fix taken at 14:12:51 GMT
     A            Status A=active or V=Void.
     5627.6381,N   Latitude 56 deg 27.6381 min N
     01001.7292,E  Longitude 10 deg 01.7292 min E
     0.10        Speed over the ground in km
     348.55        Track angle in degrees True
     010711       Date - 1st of July 2011
     *60          The checksum data, always begins with *