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In the linux world there is the interesting TangoGPS and it's fork FoxtrotGPS

And its predecessor WhiskeyGPS?

In the linux world there is the interesting TangoGPS and it's fork FoxtrotGPS

TangoGPS is the best OSS alternative to Google Maps / Lattitude that I've seen. Much more usable and featureful than GPSdrive, which for some reason hangs out much higher on all the search engines and lists for Linux GPS mapping apps, even though TangoGPS has been around for a few years now.

TangoGPS supports a Latitude-like latlon reporting and friend tracker, which would probably be pretty easy to modify to use your own server. It supports multiple map sources, including OSM, and even a "for test purposes" view of Google Maps. The routing is rudimentary since I think it just uses the basic TIGER data and not one of the more tuned commercial street databases, but it's there.

Runs great on my eeePC with a bluetooth GPS and dumbphone EDGE uplink, though it looks like they also have clients for smaller devices. The user interface is somewhat touchscreen friendly, with large controls.

Have fun!

The best GPS mapping software I've found so far for my eeepc is TangoGPS:

http://www.tangogps.org/gps/cat/Screenshots

It has some pretty good pre-caching tools, and even some rudimentary routing. But no search and nav tools, which made for some pretty neat marginally-pre-planned travel experiences back when I had a Blackberry + Google Maps.

I've had limited success running Google Earth on my eeepc, mostly because their real-time GPS support blows (even back when I was a paying customer for NV Keyhole Plus)

because there are few gps navigation apps for linux.

One of my friends has DashDAQ GPS Navigation, and then there is that company called TomTom.

If you are talking about the Open Source options, http://gpsdrive.de/ and tangoGPS for two. Naturally none of the above does me any good as I don't have a GPS receiver, but as I already have a computer in the trunk running Linux.

or if you dont have an accomplice tie the phone to a dog. activate gps. and register it to http://www.tangogps.org/friends/ and you can find the dog again. let the crond make make the alibi calls with a prerecorded message. just be quick so the battery doesnt run out.

The first thing we need is free map data. All current maps have very tight legal terms, which makes this kind of thing impossible. Check out http://www.openstreetmap.org/, there might already be decent maps where you live. For navigation you can use TangoGPS but there are other programs available too.

tangoGPS may be what you're looking for. It runs on linux, (most notably OpenMoko's Neo Freerunner) and I find it to be rather slick. Shouldn't be much of a porting job (more of a recompiling job, if anything), as it already runs on ARM, and uses GTK.