Something I'd like to point out: The market goes beyond boating. There
are others including aviation, automotive, sporting, surveying, research,
and I'm sure many others. NMEA is present in most if not in all of these
areas.

This is another reason why I'd like to see changes made. Open architecture
that is extensible, so that these other areas may be addressed easier.

The electrical part of the standard is brilliant in the use of CAN. My
argument is mainly about the sentence structure and how it is retreived and
used. 0183 is great because it is human readable, somewhat rs-232
compatible, and easy to implement. Also there is enough information
floating around the web to figure out how to use it. This is not the case
with 2k.

All this makes it easy to "plug" into a laptop and test or use the talkers.
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