"Bill Kearney" wrote in
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Something I'd like to point out: The market goes beyond boating.
There are others including aviation,

I'm sure the FAA would laugh in your face at that.

Why would they do that? Besides ARINC, NMEA is a format found there.

automotive, sporting, surveying, research,
and I'm sure many others. NMEA is present in most if not in all of
these areas.

And working quite well. Besides trying to shore up a weak argument,
is there a point here?

The point is that you are trying to make it seem that the market is too
small for changes, when in fact it goes well beyond your little world.



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.

Bull**** again, and Meindert calls you on it in the next message.


I know about the proprietary sentences. What is your
major malfunction?

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.

Ah yes, the old "human readable" bogus argument. Are jpeg files human
readable? How about mp3 files? And yet they're amazingly useful in
meeting the needs of their applications.



What"s bogus about that argument? Jpeg and mp3 standards are readily
available on the net. Also I'm not arguing that NMEA does'nt do it's
job. In fact I was standing up for NMEA 0183. What's wrong with having
it human readable? If something breaks having it easy to work with makes
troubleshooting a lot easier.

I don't understand why you keep missing the main point. Maybe you work
for NMEA? You'd think that by the very nature and even the title of this
newsgroup, the audience would be in favor of the do-it yourself. Even
some of the other posters see the point.
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