topic Re: Python Get Current GPS Location in ArcMAP in Python Questions

Python Get Current GPS Location in ArcMAP

PaulVepraskas — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 21:26:32 GMT

Does anyone know of a way to get the Lat/Long for a connected GPS device into python in ArcMAP. I cannot find a resource to do this? ArcMAP has GPS tools that allow me to view the GPS Position, so I know the data is in the program, just can't seem to isolate it?

Thanks

Paul

Re: Python Get Current GPS Location in ArcMAP

DanPatterson_Retired — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 22:49:25 GMT

Don't know that specifically, but I suspect that you might need to save the location in order to get the coordinates. I use DNRGPS for this instead of ArcMap, so you might want to give it a try as well

Re: Python Get Current GPS Location in ArcMAP

OwenEarley — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 02:11:23 GMT

In ArcMap the GPS functionality is contained within the GPS toolbar. This toolbar would have been implemented using ArcObjects.

Arcpy allows you to access geoprocessing tools or manipulate map documents but it has a courser object model than the full ArcObjects – not everything in ArcObjects is available via arcpy.

There do not appear to be any arcpy classes or functions that refer to the GPS toolbar functionality so you may be out of luck.