Send GPS data to database

What is your target device?  A Windows Mobile cell phone?

Generally speaking, you won't be able to do what you envision.  Nearly all phones prohibit access to location information.  Furthermore, most phones do not have a full-fledged GPS receiver in them.  They have half a GPS receiver.  The other half is in some central office of the carrier (Verizon, Cingular, etc.).  Your phone just picks up the GPS signals and sends raw data over the network to the carrier who crunches the numbers to determine your location.  This is "Assisted GPS".

There is probably not enough raw data on the device itself to get a fix without the cooperation of the carrier.

You'll probably have to build your own device using a GPS receiver and a cell phone.  A good choice would be a Pocket PC phone and a Bluetooth GPS receiver.  You could then write some custom software for the phone to accomplish what you want.

Keep in mind that most devices don't have enough battery life to report a fix every 15 seconds.  They will go dead in less than a day.

Here's a Garmin Bluetooth receiver:
http://www.garmin.com/products/gps10/

The PPC 6700 is an EVDO, Bluetooth phone that would be a good choice for this project:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/articles/ppc6700.mspx

You could alternatively use a laptop with a data card like this:
http://www.novatelwireless.com/products/merlin/merlin-s620.html

Thanks for your responses.  I apologize for not being more clear of the current configuration.  All the clients (laptop users) have a GPS antenna and receiver in the cars; and the current application displays the vehicles latitude, longitude and speed.  I need to be able to capture this data every 1/8th of a mile or every 30 seconds, whichever occurs first and store this GPS data in a SQL database table.  This process is required for us to complete an AVL (Automatic Vehicle Location) project here at the Sheriff's Office.  Thanks for you assistance.

So you don't need to transmit the location data over-the-air?  You just need to keep a log in a local SQL database on the laptop?

What you need is some custom software for your laptops that grabs GPS data from the serial port(?) and plops it into a database.  Such an application wouldn't be difficult to write.  I see that you already have Visual Basic.

Here's an article about SQL access from Visual Basic:

http://www.adit.co.uk/html/sqlforaccess2.html

Here's a VB example for reading GPS data from an NMEA device:

http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/show/4634/

PAQ refund please, I have developed the methodology necessary to accomplish my project needs.  My specific question was how to store the data stream to a database.

Sure. Post your solution and you get your points back - this is how EE works.
Because the solution above will work :) And unless you post another one, there is no reason not to give points

Per your request!
       
Dim conn As New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection("Connection String Goes Here")
        Dim da As New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter("Select * from [table name]", conn)
        Dim ds As New System.Data.DataSet
        Dim cmd As New SqlCommand("insert into [table name](Latitude,Longitude,speedmph,fixstatus,unitid,username)values(@latitude,@longitude,@speedmph,@fixstatus,@unitid,@username)", conn)

        Try
            conn.Open()
            cmd.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@longitude", SqlDbType.NVarChar = 12)).Value = Longitude.Text
            cmd.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@latitude", SqlDbType.NVarChar = 12)).Value = Latitude.Text
            cmd.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@speedmph", SqlDbType.NVarChar = 12)).Value = SpeedMPH.Text
            cmd.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@fixstatus", SqlDbType.NVarChar = 12)).Value = FixStatus.Text
            cmd.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@unitid", SqlDbType.NVarChar = 12)).Value = UnitID.Text
            cmd.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@username", SqlDbType.NVarChar = 12)).Value = UserName.Text
            cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
        Catch ex As Exception
            MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
        Finally
            conn.Close()
        End Try