On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 06:37:48PM -0700, Stuart Jansen wrote: > I'm thinking about buying a GPS receiver and want to make sure that I > get something that will work well with Linux. It looks like there's an > official standard protocol that most GPS units implement, but I haven't > been able to figure out if this protocol applies to current location > information only, or if it can also be used to upload and download > waypoints.
I take it you mean NMEA-0183, a proprietary standard. http://www.nmea.org/pub/0183/ It supports real time data, but not waypoints. There is no standard for waypoints, but gpsbabel will help there. http://www.gpsbabel.org/ > > Does anyone have any experience or suggestions? Check out gpsdrive. http://freshmeat.net/projects/gpsdrive/ Also "Finding Your Way with GpsDrive", by someone you've never heard of, Linux Journal, March (or so), 2005. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7406 Also check out gpsd, a daemon for watching GPSs. It supports both serial and USB NMEA GPS receivers. http://gpsd.berlios.de/ See the hardware page for compatible GPS receivers. http://gpsd.berlios.de/hardware.html -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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