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 <rpj...@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 > > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > ======================================================================== > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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