As part of the driver&#39;s SIG&#39;s efforts to add some officially supported GPS drivers to ROS, I&#39;m proposing a new NMEA GPS Driver (based on the existing cyphy_ros_gps driver [1]). You can find the driver&#39;s wiki page here: <a href="http://ros.org/wiki/nmea_gps_driver">http://ros.org/wiki/nmea_gps_driver</a><div>
<div><br></div><div>nmea_gps_driver is a simple NMEA driver. It supports reading NMEA strings from a serial port and outputting the appropriate ROS messages. Currently supported output messages are sensor_msgs/NavSatFix for positional information, geometry_msgs/TwistStamped for velocity information reported by the GPS unit and sensor_msgs/TimeReference to output the current time according to the GPS unit. This driver is meant to be cross-platform and avoid a dependency on GPSd.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I&#39;ve created an API review page:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://ros.org/wiki/nmea_gps_driver/Reviews/2012-03-05_API_Review">http://ros.org/wiki/nmea_gps_driver/Reviews/2012-03-05_API_Review</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>If you are interested in this driver, please take a look at the ROS API of the nmea_gps_driver unary stack and share your comments on the review page. If you do leave a comment, please add your name to the list of reviewers and subscribe to the page in order to receive notifications of replies.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Eric Perko</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://www.ros.org/browse/details.php?name=cyphy_ros_gps">http://www.ros.org/browse/details.php?name=cyphy_ros_gps</a></div></div>