go-nmea

This is a NMEA library for the Go programming language (Golang).

Features

• Parse individual NMEA 0183 sentences
• Support for sentences with NMEA 4.10 "TAG Blocks"
• Register custom parser for unsupported sentence types
• User-friendly MIT license

Installing

To install go-nmea use go get:

go get github.com/adrianmo/go-nmea

This will then make the github.com/adrianmo/go-nmea package available to you.

Staying up to date

To update go-nmea to the latest version, use go get -u github.com/adrianmo/go-nmea.

Supported sentences

At this moment, this library supports the following sentence types:

Sentence type	Description
RMC	Recommended Minimum Specific GPS/Transit data
PMTK	Messages for setting and reading commands for MediaTek gps modules.
GGA	GPS Positioning System Fix Data
GSA	GPS DOP and active satellites
GSV	GPS Satellites in view
GLL	Geographic Position, Latitude / Longitude and time
VTG	Track Made Good and Ground Speed
ZDA	Date & time data
HDT	Actual vessel heading in degrees True
GNS	Combined GPS fix for GPS, Glonass, Galileo, and BeiDou
PGRME	Estimated Position Error (Garmin proprietary sentence)
THS	Actual vessel heading in degrees True and status
VDM/VDO	Encapsulated binary payload
WPL	Waypoint location
RTE	Route
VHW	Water Speed and Heading
DPT	Depth of Water
DBS	Depth Below Surface
DBT	Depth below transducer

If you need to parse a message that contains an unsupported sentence type you can implement and register your own message parser and get yourself unblocked immediately. Check the example below to know how to implement and register a custom message parser. However, if you think your custom message parser could be beneficial to other users we encourage you to contribute back to the library by submitting a PR and get it included in the list of supported sentences.

Examples

Built-in message parsing

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"github.com/adrianmo/go-nmea"
)

func main() {
	sentence := "$GPRMC,220516,A,5133.82,N,00042.24,W,173.8,231.8,130694,004.2,W*70"
	s, err := nmea.Parse(sentence)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	if s.DataType() == nmea.TypeRMC {
		m := s.(nmea.RMC)
		fmt.Printf("Raw sentence: %v\n", m)
		fmt.Printf("Time: %s\n", m.Time)
		fmt.Printf("Validity: %s\n", m.Validity)
		fmt.Printf("Latitude GPS: %s\n", nmea.FormatGPS(m.Latitude))
		fmt.Printf("Latitude DMS: %s\n", nmea.FormatDMS(m.Latitude))
		fmt.Printf("Longitude GPS: %s\n", nmea.FormatGPS(m.Longitude))
		fmt.Printf("Longitude DMS: %s\n", nmea.FormatDMS(m.Longitude))
		fmt.Printf("Speed: %f\n", m.Speed)
		fmt.Printf("Course: %f\n", m.Course)
		fmt.Printf("Date: %s\n", m.Date)
		fmt.Printf("Variation: %f\n", m.Variation)
	}
}

Output:

$ go run main/main.go

Raw sentence: $GPRMC,220516,A,5133.82,N,00042.24,W,173.8,231.8,130694,004.2,W*70
Time: 22:05:16.0000
Validity: A
Latitude GPS: 5133.8200
Latitude DMS: 51° 33' 49.200000"
Longitude GPS: 042.2400
Longitude DMS: 0° 42' 14.400000"
Speed: 173.800000
Course: 231.800000
Date: 13/06/94
Variation: -4.200000

TAG Blocks

NMEA 4.10 TAG Block values can be accessed via the message's TagBlock struct:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"time"
	"github.com/adrianmo/go-nmea"
)

func main() {
	sentence := "\\s:Satelite_1,c:1553390539*62\\!AIVDM,1,1,,A,13M@ah0025QdPDTCOl`K6`nV00Sv,0*52"
	s, err := nmea.Parse(sentence)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	parsed := s.(nmea.VDMVDO)
	fmt.Printf("TAG Block timestamp: %v\n", time.Unix(parsed.TagBlock.Time, 0))
	fmt.Printf("TAG Block source:    %v\n", parsed.TagBlock.Source)
}

Output (locale/time zone dependent):

$  go run main/main.go
 
TAG Block timestamp: 2019-03-24 14:22:19 +1300 NZDT
TAG Block source:    Satelite_1

Custom message parsing

If you need to parse a message not supported by the library you can implement your own message parsing. The following example implements a parser for the hypothetical XYZ NMEA sentence type.

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/adrianmo/go-nmea"
)

// A type to hold the parsed record
type XYZType struct {
	nmea.BaseSentence
	Time    nmea.Time
	Counter int64
	Label   string
	Value   float64
}

func main() {
	// Do this once it will error if you register the same type multiple times
	err := nmea.RegisterParser("XYZ", func(s nmea.BaseSentence) (nmea.Sentence, error) {
		// This example uses the package builtin parsing helpers
		// you can implement your own parsing logic also
		p := nmea.NewParser(s)
		return XYZType{
			BaseSentence: s,
			Time:         p.Time(0, "time"),
			Label:        p.String(1, "label"),
			Counter:      p.Int64(2, "counter"),
			Value:        p.Float64(3, "value"),
		}, p.Err()
	})

	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	sentence := "$00XYZ,220516,A,23,5133.82,W*42"
	s, err := nmea.Parse(sentence)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	m, ok := s.(XYZType)
	if !ok {
		panic("Could not parse type XYZ")
	}

	fmt.Printf("Raw sentence: %v\n", m)
	fmt.Printf("Time: %s\n", m.Time)
	fmt.Printf("Label: %s\n", m.Label)
	fmt.Printf("Counter: %d\n", m.Counter)
	fmt.Printf("Value: %f\n", m.Value)
}

Output:

$ go run main/main.go

Raw sentence: $AAXYZ,220516,A,23,5133.82,W*42
Time: 22:05:16.0000
Label: A
Counter: 23
Value: 5133.820000

Contributing

Please feel free to submit issues or fork the repository and send pull requests to update the library and fix bugs, implement support for new sentence types, refactor code, etc.

License

Check LICENSE.