Where to get SGEE data

[aeszter]

Hi,

I've noticed you support SGEE uploads as well, but I couldn't find anything in the documentation on where to get the data. As far as I can tell, it cannot simply be downloaded (without an API key, that is) do you use one of the other free tools like openambit?

Thanks,
A.

[iwanders]

Hi,

I've noticed you support SGEE uploads as well, but I couldn't find anything in the documentation on where to get the data.

Yep it's supported and works, I believe I tested it with data the official client downloaded into it's program folder or something.

As far as I can tell, it cannot simply be downloaded (without an API key, that is) do you use one of the other free tools like openambit?

Yeah, it's not really available. The SGEE (some info here) data is basically a very precise path prediction for the gps satellites, this allows a much faster fix if your device has just seen a few satellites. As far as I know OpenAmbit doesn't provide this data either, it appears to be sold by some companies, to - you guessed it - other companies.

There's a SiRF gps receiver in the pod, I presume any SiRF SGEE file will work. As far as I know no analysis / information is known about the file format, which unfortunately also means there's free / open way to obtain it.

I'll leave this issue open, I can't really help with it, but if anyone knows of code that can be used to generate this SGEE file from public data, feel free to chime in.