This is an advanced and very fast version of gpsd which should be compatible with the mapping program. It will log location (along with NMEA output) to KML (KMZ) files in a selectable location. I have a configuration/start/stop/status program written in Python, both statusbar and normal app versions.

GPL.

I haven't gotten the documentation down (help is welcome), but can provide some support in this thread or via PM.

It has a number of dependencies (in the deb) which may require extra repositories, but I don't have a clean tablet install to check which might need to be added (bluez-utils-test will probably require red-pill, but these aren't test utilities as much as configuration utilities like ping and ifconfig).

GPSGate is supported via TCP using an IMEI number.

The statusbar icon is initially blank but turns red when starting, has a red border when not locked and green when locked. Small dots go from blue to red-hot to white-hot depending on signal strength and there is a position indicator (needing improvement). It pops up the configuration menu to start/stop/set minigpsd. It uses more CPU than I would like and I'm fixing that. The standalone app is a near clone and does the same thing.

http://www.zdez.org/tzgps-0.30-pre1.tar

(Update - see later posts for fixed, with later preN.deb files - this tar has some of the base stuff which still might be useful)

contains the 3 debs and the source. minigpsdconf.txt in the minigpsd source tree describes the options.

This is an EARLY beta, and I plan on fixing a few things, but it is installable AFAIK, but want to see if anyone has problems.