[OSM-newbies] Fedora and bluetooth gps (openstreetmap.org) howto ?

[Andrew Williams]

2008/8/1 Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> I have Sirf III bluetooth GPS receiver and would like to contribute to
> www.openstreetmap.org project.
>
> Is there any good guide how to connect bluetooth gps receiver to a laptop
> running fedora 9 and wich applications to install and how to setup them.
>
> Any help is much appreciated!
>
> Can't wait to start contributing maps of areas I visit and travel to!
>

Nothing jumps out from my searches, but setting up GPS isn't that bad,
just a few twiddly stages:

* Pair your GPS with your laptop's bluetooth
* Configure a RFCOMM port to access the GPS
* Setup GPSD to use the RFCOMM port
* Download and pick your software for tracking and routefinding :)

Take a look at http://gpsd.berlios.de/bt.html, it has the details of
pairing and setting up gpsd, but I cant help you on  the Fedora setup,
being a Debian guy :)

I'm sure someone else will jump in to give you more help.

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