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Hi
This has been bugging me since I started using Cortana.
Well there is finally a fix that works, not by Microsoft but by someone named Michael Chourdakis at the behest of someone named Wilson Phillips on the Windows help web site.
I tried it and it worked for me.
Cortana now knows exactly where I am.
Mike
One note, for me when I went to the Google Maps page I found that my GPS location was found in the https: bar at the top of the screen, as part of the address, (not in a box at the bottom) and that there were a couple of extra characters added to the end after a comma. Just make sure that the format looks like the sample.
Here is the post...
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Michael Chourdakis really came through for us. He made a change in his program GPSComplete. It now has the option for Fixed Location. Thanks so much Michael.
Here is a How-To
Go to Welcome to GPSDirect and GPSReverse GPS NMEA Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 10 Sensor Driver iOS Android TCP Bluetooth and in the left hand column, click on Download.
Choose the version you need for your operating system. If you don’t know if your OS is 32 bit or 64 bit, go to Settings/System/About.
Click on the version you need. It should place a copy into your Downloads folder. Open your Downloads folder and move or copy gpscomplete64.exe or gpscomplete32.exe to wherever you would like to keep it.
Run the exe. User Account Control will ask if you want to allow this program to make changes to your computer. Click YES.
GPSComplete will now open and you click on the Sensor Driver tab in the menu. This tab will expand and you click INSTALL.
For NMEA Source Select FIXED.
Now we need the coordinates to put into the Baud/Port section.
Go to Google Maps and find your location. For this example, we will use Alcatraz Island. Zoom in and find your exact location. You can select map or earth view to help you narrow it down as exact as you need it to be. Click on the location. It should show a pin and at the bottom of the window, a box with the map coordinates. For me, I see 37.827562, -122.423887, but we cannot use them this way. We need to swap them and type them into the Baud/Port box as in this example.
-122.423887,37.827562 and click OK
You’re done. Open the Windows Maps App and you should see your location right where you set it to be. You can ask Hey Cortana, “Where am I?” and she should now know where you are.
You can close the GPSComplete program and it will be set permanently. It should stay resident as a Sensor in Device Manager until you uninstall the program.
Remember that the only part of GPSComplete that you installed was the Sensor Driver and that is not free. Please purchase the license for GPSDirect from ttp://www.turboirc.com/gps7/
Thanks Michael.
That was a great thing to do for the Windows 10 Community.
This has been bugging me since I started using Cortana.
Well there is finally a fix that works, not by Microsoft but by someone named Michael Chourdakis at the behest of someone named Wilson Phillips on the Windows help web site.
I tried it and it worked for me.
Cortana now knows exactly where I am.
Mike
One note, for me when I went to the Google Maps page I found that my GPS location was found in the https: bar at the top of the screen, as part of the address, (not in a box at the bottom) and that there were a couple of extra characters added to the end after a comma. Just make sure that the format looks like the sample.
Here is the post...
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Michael Chourdakis really came through for us. He made a change in his program GPSComplete. It now has the option for Fixed Location. Thanks so much Michael.
Here is a How-To
Go to Welcome to GPSDirect and GPSReverse GPS NMEA Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 10 Sensor Driver iOS Android TCP Bluetooth and in the left hand column, click on Download.
Choose the version you need for your operating system. If you don’t know if your OS is 32 bit or 64 bit, go to Settings/System/About.
Click on the version you need. It should place a copy into your Downloads folder. Open your Downloads folder and move or copy gpscomplete64.exe or gpscomplete32.exe to wherever you would like to keep it.
Run the exe. User Account Control will ask if you want to allow this program to make changes to your computer. Click YES.
GPSComplete will now open and you click on the Sensor Driver tab in the menu. This tab will expand and you click INSTALL.
For NMEA Source Select FIXED.
Now we need the coordinates to put into the Baud/Port section.
Go to Google Maps and find your location. For this example, we will use Alcatraz Island. Zoom in and find your exact location. You can select map or earth view to help you narrow it down as exact as you need it to be. Click on the location. It should show a pin and at the bottom of the window, a box with the map coordinates. For me, I see 37.827562, -122.423887, but we cannot use them this way. We need to swap them and type them into the Baud/Port box as in this example.
-122.423887,37.827562 and click OK
You’re done. Open the Windows Maps App and you should see your location right where you set it to be. You can ask Hey Cortana, “Where am I?” and she should now know where you are.
You can close the GPSComplete program and it will be set permanently. It should stay resident as a Sensor in Device Manager until you uninstall the program.
Remember that the only part of GPSComplete that you installed was the Sensor Driver and that is not free. Please purchase the license for GPSDirect from ttp://www.turboirc.com/gps7/
Thanks Michael.
That was a great thing to do for the Windows 10 Community.