[nflug] gps

[D. Joe]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 08:27:32AM -0400, Cyber Source wrote:
> Anyone play with gps stuff in Linux? I am taking a trip to England and 
> Sweden next month and would like to bring my laptop to use with gps. I 
> see tons of stuff in the Ubuntu repos for it but before I just start 
> installing and trying things, I thought I would ask our learned email 
> list. Can anyone point me in some direction or share their experiences 
> with Linux and gps?

I've used a Garmin GPS handset to feed an NMEA stream to gpsd
running on a laptop, and then have pointed kismet to gpsd to
give spatial information while wardriving. 

Pretty simple stuff, but I think it counts as proof-of-concept.

The gps handset was a moderately high-end one in its day, but
most of the features of it are wasted in this sort of use.  I
notice there are several options now for fairly featureless
little gps devices, <<$100, that just pump out location
information via USB or Bluetooth.  Just a few status LEDs, no
display or keypad or anything.

-- 
Joe