outrageously newbie question about playing with GPS on fedora

[John Mellor]

There is no other expense, unless you want to get into tying in your
location to map data from a non-free source.  I use an older Holux
puck-type receiver, similar to your first selection.  Since my upstream is
somewhat flakey due to the variable latency problems introduced by my
incompetent last-mile provider, I provide my own NTP stratum-0 reference
clock from the NMEA stream.

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
wrote:

>
>   (note: even though i'm running rawhide, this issue has nothing to do
> with rawhide itself, so i'm using the regular list.)
>
>   having never messed with GPS software running on linux, one or two
> truly beginner-level questions. if i want to simply buy a GPS receiver
> and set up my fedora laptop to start receiving raw NMEA data, once i
> purchase the receiver and install something like gpsd, is there any
> additional expense in terms of a monthly service subscription or
> anything like that? (i warned you this would be a dumb question.)
>
>   i'm interested primarily in experimenting with receiving/parsing
> NMEA data, the kernel modules involved, etc., so i don't need
> spectacular performance or precision. i'm in california next week so i
> figured i'd check out these two USB GPS receivers:
>
>  http://www.embeddedworks.net/satl114.html
>  http://www.embeddedworks.net/satl116.html
>
> then i'd install gpsd (or equivalent if one exists), fire up a client
> and start reading data. is there any more to it than that? also open
> to recommendations for other GPS receivers if anyone has good
> experiences.
>
> rday
>
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