On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, draeath wrote:
> Well, I got myself an EeePC 1000 and put openSUSE on it. I'm extremely
> impressed.
>
> Now that I have a car/travel friendly notebook, I was curious about GPS units
> and map software... are there any such things that work with Linux? If I need
> to, I can build my own GPS amd interface (arduino, etc) so I'm mostly
> concerned about maps. At the worst, good "normal" maps and some basic
> navigation knowledge (and GPS coordinates) would cover...
>
> I guess I'm hoping for a Linux friendly parallel to the MS or Delorme stuff.
I have a Garmin Etrex Vista, and I haven't heard of any real-time or Linuxy
software for it. Not really surprising since it's an older model (serial
interface). If you do find some, I'm quite interested though.
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