Re: outrageously newbie question about playing with GPS on fedora

2014-10-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014, John Mellor wrote: > 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 lat

Re: outrageously newbie question about playing with GPS on fedora

2014-10-12 Thread 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-m

outrageously newbie question about playing with GPS on fedora

2014-10-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
(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 st