Save NMEA or AIS data to an Excel file (CSV format)

We recommend not to save NMEA or AIS data directly to a .xls or .xlsx file because it's a very slow method.

Instead, generate CSV files using the "Local database" module (Figure 1), and then open them in Excel.

Figure 1: Configure data export to a CSV file

Related articles:

• FAQ.
• Get NMEA GPS and Sounder data through the OPC interface.
• Write NMEA data to a database (using MS Access in this example).
• Export AIS data to a database.
• Export all received AIS or NMEA data to XML or a text file.
• Saving NMEA or AIS data to a Microsoft Excel file (CSV format).
• Saving selected NMEA values to an Excel file (CSV format).
• Grouping NMEA data from two data sources to one row in a CSV file.
• Grouping NMEA data from two data sources with different communication parameters.
• Decoding AIS files (batch AIS files processing).