You need to bridge your Android device and something that emulate a serial port device for your laptop. I don't have experience with them, neither I know if open source solutions are available, but there are various solutions on the market, many of them using Bluetooth as the transmission mean between Android and the PC.
Recently I heard about BlueNMEA and GPSDirect (this one for Windows and free only for non-commercial use). giovanni 2013/9/4 Zoltan Szecsei <[email protected]> > Hi Guys, > Does anyone know of an app whereby I can link my Android phone to a laptop > running QGis, and have QGis read the GPS coords in realtime, and track the > position on a displayed image? > > Rather like a normal "car GPS", but using the GPS in my Android phone, and > tracking my position on my vectors and images that are being displayed in > QGis. > > TIA, > Zoltan > > > > -- > > ==============================**============= > Zoltan Szecsei PrGISc [PGP0031] > Geograph (Pty) Ltd. > P.O. Box 7, Muizenberg 7950, South Africa. > > 65 Main Road, Muizenberg 7945 > Western Cape, South Africa. > > 34° 6'16.35"S 18°28'5.62"E > > Tel: +27-21-7884897 Mobile: +27-83-6004028 > Fax: +27-86-6115323 www.geograph.co.za > ==============================**============= > > ______________________________**_________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/qgis-user<http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user> > -- Giovanni Allegri http://about.me/giovanniallegri blog: http://blog.spaziogis.it GEO+ geomatica in Italia http://bit.ly/GEOplus
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