# mikalhart/TinyGPSPlus

A new, customizable Arduino NMEA parsing library

Repository: https://github.com/mikalhart/TinyGPSPlus
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tinygpsplus
Homepage: http://arduiniana.org
Language: C++
License Family: other
Last push: 2024-05-20T15:07:53+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4747, "days_push": 835, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1280, forks 548 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:13.680205+00:00)

## What it is
TinyGPSPlus is a compact, customizable Arduino library for parsing NMEA data streams from GPS modules. It extracts position, date, time, altitude, speed, and course, and can parse arbitrary or proprietary NMEA sentences.

## Use cases
- parse GPS coordinates from an NMEA stream on Arduino
- extract latitude and longitude from a GPS module
- get date, time, speed, and course from GPS sentences
- parse proprietary NMEA sentences from a GPS receiver
- build a GPS tracker with Arduino
- read GPS data on non-Arduino embedded platforms

## When to choose
- you need a lightweight GPS/NMEA parser for Arduino or another microcontroller
- you want to extract custom fields from arbitrary NMEA sentences
- memory-constrained projects that need compact parsing code

## When to avoid
- you need a full GPS solution with hardware drivers, not just sentence parsing
- your project targets high-level platforms with richer GPS libraries
- you require an actively developed library with a formal license

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: parser, embedded
- domain: embedded-systems, hardware
- platform: embedded, cpp, cross-platform
- tags: arduino, gps, nmea, embedded-cpp, geospatial

## Member repositories
- mikalhart/TinyGPSPlus (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:13.680205+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T05:02:38.032472+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mikalhart/TinyGPSPlus (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:13.680205+00:00, sha 5b1d8f287fa8)
  - homepage: http://arduiniana.org (fetched 2026-08-29T12:13:14.015955+00:00, sha bf9f2354357d)
  - site_page: http://arduiniana.org/about (fetched 2026-08-29T12:13:14.019275+00:00, sha c879ac77f43b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.