Datasheet

Now plug in the USB cable, and open up the serial monitor from the Arduino IDE and be sure to select 9600 baud in

the drop down. You should see text like the following:

This is the raw GPS "NMEA sentence" output from the module. There are a few different kinds of NMEA sentences, the

most common ones people use are the $GPRMC (Global Positioning RecommendedMinimum Coordinates or

something like that) and the $GPGGA sentences. These two provide the time, date, latitude, longitude, altitude,

estimated land speed, and fix type. Fix type indicates whether the GPS has locked onto the satellite data and received