[OSM-talk] Asus eee and OpenStreetMap

[Valent Turkovic]

Hi I posted a new howto on my blog.

I use Asus eee 701 with Fedora 9 installed to capture GPS traces and I
have posted a howto on it. Asus eee 701 is cheap and great little and
very portable laptop - just perfect for mapping! I hope you find this
howto helpful.

Bluetooth GPS Fedora howto:
http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/index.php/archives/bluetooth-gps-fedora-howto/

I will copy/paste it here but please go to my blog for an always up to
date version.



Bluetooth GPS Fedora howto

If you have bluetooth GPS dongle that you have laying around, or can
borrow one from somebody, and like driving a bike or a car around then
this is the guide for you.


You need to have bluetooth wireless chip already installed on your
laptop. If you have a laptop or a desktop without bluetooth you can
buy and use USB bluetooth dongle.


You can check if you have a bluetooth and that it is working correctly
using this command:
hcitool dev



Then let's make sure you have bluetooth service running:
service bluetooth status


if it is not running just start it with:
service bluetooth start


Turn on your bluetooth GPS dongle and find its bluetooth mac address
with this command:
hcitool scan
Scanning …
00:1E:EE:00:11:22 LG KU990
00:02:78:99:FF:00 SJ GPS
00:12:EE:55:00:FF Device01


If you find more than one bluetooth device you should know the name of
your GPS dongle. My GPS dongle has a "GPS" in its name so it is easy
to catch its mac address: 00:02:78:99:FF:00 (SJ GPS)


You need to install gpsd and setup bluetooth config files, so let's
first install gpsd:
yum install gpsd -y


Then you need to edit bluetooth config file so that gpsd connects
automatically to GPS bluetooth dongle.

su -
gedit -etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf


and add these lines:


rfcomm0 {
# Automatically bind the device at startup
bind yes;

# Bluetooth address of the device
device 00:12:EE:55:00:FF;

# RFCOMM channel for the connection
channel 1;

# Description of the connection
comment "GPS Bluetooth dongle";
}


After reboot check if you have /dev/rfcomm0 device with:
ls -al /dev/rfcomm0


If after reboot (or you don't wan't to reboot) you still don't have
/dev/rfcomm0 then just issue this command:
rfcomm bind rfcomm0


Now start gpsd daemon:
gpsd /dev/rfcomm0


Now you can start having fun! :)


Install gps applications like tangogps, gpsdrive and gpsbabel.
su -
yum install tangogps gpsdrive gpsbabel


Now just start tangogps and gpsdrive and enjoy…

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linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless
registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org.
ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic