GPS and mapping

[reed]

> Someone was telling me about Microsoft Streets & Trips and it comes with a 
> cheap GPS deal. Obviously Streets & Trips won't run in Linux, but it got me 
> wondering. Does anyone use any kind of GPS software in Linux with a GPS 
> device? What do you use?

That would have been useful for me this last week when I took my family on 
a 2000 mile (eight states) trip. Got lost twice -- somewhere in Missouri 
near Jamesport and then around Dallas, Texas.

Here are some links:

http://opensourcegis.org/
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/FAQ  (outside of USA)
http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsman/
http://gpspoint.dnsalias.net/gpspoint2/
http://gpsdrive.kraftvoll.at/
http://gpsd.berlios.de/  (see the applications that use it)
http://www.aac.uc.pt/~seabra/
http://www.mgix.com/gps3d/

Now I need to look to find what hardware is needed that I can plug into a 
laptop (like PCMCIA or PCCARD) and where to get the free databases.