[OSM-newbies] GPS tracks in realtime on laptop?

[Paul Johnson]

Alan Mintz wrote:

> I have a Windows laptop and Garmin 60CSx GPS receiver. Is there a way to 
> display my tracks from the GPSR on the laptop in realtime while surveying 
> (since the screen in much larger)?

The livegps and surveyor plugins in JOSM work with gpsd.  Note that
gpsd's position on Windows is that it's needlessly difficult to support
that platform, and that you should "get a real operating system" if you
want to work with geospatial data.