rpigps

Prerequisites on the Raspberry PI

sudo apt-get install gpsd
sudo apt-get install gpsd-clients
sudo dpkg-reconfigure gpsd

The device will likely appear at /dev/gps0

stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 ispeed 4800 && cat </dev/ttyUSB0
gpsd /dev/gps0 -b -n

To pipe GPS JSON data out:

gpspipe -w > gpsdata.json

A CUI view can be obtained using:

cgps

References

http://www.catb.org/gpsd/installation.html

https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik

https://github.com/openstreetmap/osmosis

https://github.com/CloudMade/Leaflet

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