Re: GPS Software/Hardware

> Lonny Selinger wrote:
>> I've been doing a bit of searching on GPS *sutff* and was wondering if
>> anyone
>> has working configs they'd like to share (hardware/software). I took a look
>> at
>> Cumulus and Kflog but I was thinking more along the lines of North American
>> street map type solutions.
>>
>> I'll keep hunting but I really haven't found anything specific refering to
>> Opie/Familiar and GPS. I do recall a couple of X type apps but one that
>> works
>> in Opie would be nice if it's possible :)
>
> For Opie there is:
>
> qpegps:
> http://qpegps.sourceforge.net/index.html
>
> roadmap:
> http://roadmap.digitalomaha.net
>
>> Any good experiences? ... bad ones? lol
>
> Had some problems with gpsd, needed by all gps clients. There seems to
> be a number of different versions and forks around and not all of them
> work flawlessly. There is no gpsd in the current (0.8.4) feed, but an
> old version can be found at
> http://familiar.handhelds.org/familiar/feeds/unstable/packages/armv4l
>
> The version (fork?) bundled with gpsdrive works better for me:
> http://www.gpsdrive.cc/download.shtml
>
> After installing gpsd from the unstable feed I just took the binary gpsd
> from gpsdrive-1.32-arm.tar.gz and dropped it into /usr/sbin on the iPaq.
>
> The syntax in the gpsdrive version is different. Type gpsd -h to see how
> to to start.
>
> (I read somewhere, but can't find the message now, that some versions of
>   gpsd expect certain end-of-line chars (CRLF or just LF don't remember
> which) to be sent by the GPS and will wait forever if EOL does not match
> the expected.)
>
> Some useful notes on setting up a bluetooth gps at:
> http://www.frontiernet.net/~beakmyn/bluetooth%20Ipaq%203975.htm
>
> Hopefully someone will provide updated binaries of gps utilities in the
> 0.8.4 feed soon, gpsd, gpsdrive, qpegps, roadmap (+ kismet). Not easy to
> cross-compile them yourself.

Morten,

EXACTLY the thing I was looking for! Thanks a lot. I'll go some reading and
more reasearch as per other suggestions as well and see what I can put
together.

--
Lonny


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