Help with saving output chip data to a .txt file

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I have a GPS chip that will display Lat, Lng coordinates to an LCD, but also display a path on the GoogleMaps(polyline) using those coordinates. Originally the plan was to save the coordinats data to a SD card and then plug it in to the computer (windows 7 pc), and extract the values to put into my java program in Eclipse, that will show path in GoogleMaps.

However, I need to display those coordinates in GoogleMaps within few weeks, since I don't have experience with SD management ( SDshield), I thought it would be easier to just save data to .txt file directly on my computer.

Does anyone know if either one is easier? I don't know how to save data to .txt file or SD card, so both will be challenging... but if anyone know of a library to use or have suggestions I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

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You can't save data directly to a file on the PC. You could send data to a program on the PC that then wrote the data to a file.

Depending on your programming skills, and the language that you write the PC application in, you might be able to directly interface with GoogleMaps, and not need to store the data at all.

The ease of writing to an SD card depends a lot on the SD card shield that you get.

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You can do it with GoBetwino. If your PC is running Windows.

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PaulS, thank you for reply. I'm planning on using openLog(SparkFun OpenLog - DEV-13712 - SparkFun Electronics).

MikMo, I downloaded the program, will play around with it later, sounds promising. Thanks for pointing that out.

I still have to use SD shield eventually, I just thought saving to a .txt file would be easier, because I need to get the path on the map asap.