[plug] Linux and GPS

[stephen humble]

John Breen wrote:
> 
> Has anyone seen/heard anything about getting Linux to talk to GPS
> boxes.  They use a serial connection (usually), so something that can
> talk to them across a serial port should be cool.

yes there was a big 4 wheeled computer controlled rover robot i
saw a while back on the web which used a linux os computer to talk to a
gps  
and a windows machine to do everything thing else it was quite a 
well funded project cant remember much else though - try a search
perhaps  

> Any pointers/info/etc...  would be much appreciated, as I'm hoping to
> land a programming project getting it to happen...
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