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  1. 21st October 2013, 01:05 PM #1
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    Windows 8 warning

    I just bought a tablet with Windows 8 and an inbuilt GPS. Whilst it will run Memory Map, it won't pick up the GPS due to the different arrangements with W8.

    W8 no longer creates virtual Com Ports but, the case of the GPS device, uses Location API. My tablet also comes with a Broadcom GNSS chipset. There is a work around using Centrafuse Localizer ($US14.99), but its not always without difficulty. With some machines it seems to work easily and first time but in my case, and others if the forum is anything to go by, it takes some fiddling with to work.

    Memorymap say a W8 update is "high on the to do list" but based on past experience, DHYB.

    If anyone has a simpler/foolproof and better solution I'd love to hear it.

    I have an ASUS TF810C (love it).
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  2. 22nd October 2013, 10:21 AM #2
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    Have a look here,

    Welcome to Turbo GPS for Pocket PC, Windows Mobile and Android, iOS

    Reading there forums it appears this can recognise GNSS Geolocation sensor in Windows 8

    I havnt tried it though
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  3. 23rd October 2013, 07:33 AM #3
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    Shouldn't this topic be named MemoryMap warning? Sounds like they're the culprits, not M$.
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  4. 24th October 2013, 11:41 AM #4
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    Well I solved the problem. In addition to Localizer I needed to load a different driver (Lenovo 4751) which although nominally designed or iPad2 (I gather) it seems to work generically. Needed the different driver to generate, or get access to, the NMEA stream which wasn't there before.

    I beliieve it to be more than just a MMap problem, but I'm not an expert. If you do not have an inbuilt GPS but want to connect an external device via usb, then, as I understand it you will still need some interface to be able to use it. But you are also right, my experience is that MMap are slow to upgrade etc.

    My reading on the issue though came up with the fact that at the recent launch of Microsoft's own street mapping software, it was pointed out it wouldn't work on W8 either without virtual port software. They don't internally communicate it seems.
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  5. 10th December 2013, 04:16 PM #5
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    Have you tried Igo app?
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