Re: [Eug-lug] GPS and Linux/Unix

2005-03-17 Thread Ben Barrett
What about these? Are you looking for a handheld model w/ display instead? http://store.wmjmarine.com/c16623.html http://store.yahoo.com/able-america/navmangps4460.html Not sure where these are on http://www.navman.com ... Then, there are some gems via http://www.tapr.org http://www.tapr.org/tapr/

Re: [Eug-lug] GPS and Linux/Unix

2005-03-17 Thread Alan
I have a Magellan Meridian. It uses a simple serial connection to output NMEA 2.something. Works fine with gpsdrive mentioned in another post. GPSBabel is a well-rounded program and works as advertised. I've used it convert back and forth from several programs with no effort at all. My personal e

Re: [Eug-lug] GPS and Linux/Unix

2005-03-17 Thread Ben Barrett
http://www.gpsdrive.cc/ Sorry, no positive experiences yet but there are some other cool related things I've found as well: http://www.ckdhr.com/dns-loc/advocacy.html http://www.nihongo.org/snowhare/utilities/perldoc2tree/example/Net/DNS/RR/LOC.html http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/gps/dgps-ip.html

[Eug-lug] GPS and Linux/Unix

2005-03-16 Thread larry price
I'm looking at GPS units, and would like to hear about anyone's specific experiences with the data capture side of GPS, specifically aiming to boil out a brand or feature recommendation that could guide me. I've already found at least one app. that claims to be a fairly universal translator [1] for