Raspberry Pi Child Tracker

import serial
import time
import httplib
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO

gpsModule = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyUSB0',9600)
gpsModule.timeout = 1

GPIO.cleanup()
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
GPIO.setup(16, GPIO.OUT)

if gpsModule.closed:
    gpsModule.open()

def uploadLocation(Lat,Long):
    try:

        httpRequest = httplib.HTTPConnection("trackchild.byethost16.com")
        httpRequest.request("GET","/insertLocation.php?value=" + Lat + "|" + Long)
        client = httpRequest.getresponse()
        print client.read()

    except Exception as e:
        print e

while True:

    count = 0
    latitude = 0
    longitude = 0
    oldLatitude = 0
    oldLongitude = 0
    dataString = ""

    dataString = gpsModule.readline()
    print dataString

    try:

        if (dataString.find("$GPRMC") > -1):
            splitedData = dataString.split(",")
            for values in splitedData:
                if (count == 3):
                    rawLatitude = float(values)
                    degree = (int(rawLatitude/100))*100
                    minute = (rawLatitude - degree)/60
                    degree = degree/100
                    latitude = float("{0:.5f}".format(degree + minute))
                    print latitude
                if (count == 5):
                    rawlongitude = float(values)
                    degree = (int(rawlongitude/100))*100
                    minute = (rawlongitude - degree)/60
                    degree = degree/100
                    longitude = float("{0:.5f}".format(degree + minute))
                    print longitude


                gpsModule.flushInput()
                count = count + 1

            uploadLocation(str(latitude),str(longitude));


    except Exception as e:
        print e

    GPIO.output(16,True)
    time.sleep(0.5)
    GPIO.output(16,False)
    time.sleep(0.5)