We have covered in the first part of the article an installation of a bluetooth GPS receiver. The second part will be about opensource GPS software.

TangoGPS on an Eee PC

I have tried tangoGPS on an EeePC 4G 701 and on an Eeebox. It is a simple and easy to use program, with the ability to download free maps from the Openstreetmap project by default.

You can find tit at tangogps.org, installation packages are available for a great variety of Linux distributions. Installing it under eeebuntu is really easy, you have to download and open the .deb file.

Click on Install Package to complete the process.

TangoGPS will save your maps so you can use them offline, or without a GPS.
The maps are well detailed in big cities and are completely editable.

If you happen to be in a remote area without an acceptable map, you can save your tracks and render your own usable map.

TangoGPS offers many additional features. You can for instance create a list of friends, synchronize and share your positions with them.

You will also find a fullscreen mode, which is quite useful on a 7″ screen.

Geotagged pictures can be viewed and added. I found a presentation of the program on youtube.

TangoGPS is a great opensource application, highly recommended for netbooks of Linux enabled phones.