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Web based GPS NMEA Serial Reader and parser

Check it out:  https://nmea.makotosan.com The title is quite a mouthful but I figured that should be a decent description of what I have been working on. Maybe my ability to search the web isn't up to par but I was struggling to find a decent NMEA parser online and the ones that I did find just had you paste text into a box. What I really wanted was the ability to automatically parse the NMEA data coming from my GPS receiver. I also did not want to install a program into my computer so having something web-based would have been ideal.  Instead of trying to find something, I decided to create my own. Check it out for yourself! You'll need a USB-Serial adapter so that you can wire up a GPS receiver to your computer. I found a few on AliExpress and Amazon Haul for less than $5 a piece. One thing I learned is that some of the antennas are poorly soldered and are shorted which causes the GPS receiver to not work. If you're not seeing any output from your receiver, try disconnect...