Thursday, April 17, 2008

Bridging a USB GPS on OSX to a smartphone


My new walkman phone is rocking but it doesn't have GPS. And I have a powerbook in my car but OSX navigation software is lacking. USB GPS + Powerbook + Smartphone ==> Google Earth + TomTom! It's as simple as installing gpsdX, gps2geX then compiling gpspipe, setting up a Bluetooth serial port, and then redirecting the USB GPS output: gpspipe -r | grep -v ^GPSD > /dev/tty.SerialPort-1

Easy!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Another option is the Globsat BU-353 USB GPS receiver. It works fairly well with fast acquisitions.