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copied!<p>The PDA should have enough resources to receive the navigation data from the GPS. Most GPS receivers spit out a standard ASCII format call NMEA sentences, described <a href="http://www.gpsinformation.org/dale/nmea.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>. The sentence you might be most interested in is <a href="http://www.gpsinformation.org/dale/nmea.htm#VTG" rel="nofollow noreferrer">VTG</a> as it includes ground speed in kilometers.</p> <p>You'll need to check if your particular GPS receiver allows you to select which NMEA sentence(s) it sends. Some will only send the GGA sentence, which would give you lat/long/altitude (commonly referred to as WGS-84 coordinates). Then you'd have to do math to figure out the velocity yourself. The algorithms would be converting from WGS-84 to earth-centered earth-fixed (ECEF) coordinates, then taking differences to calculate velocity. This is far more computationally intensive than have the GPS do it for you, prone to noise unless you add some kind of filtering, and probably inaccurate due to the position errors in successive reads.</p> <p>You might ask why the VTG sentence would be any better in error - GPS receivers are capable of using the Doppler shift in the GPS signal to estimate velocity, which is far more accurate than differences of position. There's a good description <a href="http://www.aprs.net/vm/gps_cs.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>.</p> <p>If your receiver doesn't support a NMEA sentence that includes velocity, you might check if it supports any binary formats which might include velocity.</p>

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