USB GPS for Linux?

[ShadesOfGray]

Hey,
I'm shopping around for a developer-friendly USB gps receiver that can interface with Linux. We've got a Single Board Computer (debian linux, TS-7800, 500 MHz) onboard the airplane which communicates with the ground via a long-range 802.11g wifi link, and we want to add GPS to the repertoire of our aircraft. Ideally, since the SBC is rather slow, it should just gather location data from the GPS receiver, and then transmit that back down to the ground station for interpretation.

I've seen some linux-friendly USB devices, but I was wondering if anyone had done a similar project and was familiar with a developer-friendly GPS device.

Thanks for the help,
-Will

[automatik]

Can't you use something like this EM-406A (http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=465) receiver? I think you should be able to....
it's serial communication device. You'll probably need to solder leads and use RS-232-to-USB converter. After that you on your linux box just configure comm port as any serial port (baud rate etc.) and you should be good to go

[clolson]

I've been playing with a Globalsat BU-353 hocky puck gps receiver with a usb interface. I think I bought it off Amazon for roughly about $36. It's only 1hz, but does sirf-iii binary protocol and works well with gpsd under linux. I got it running on a gumstix verdex which was kind of fun.