gpsd 2.39-1ubuntu1 (lpia binary) in ubuntu karmic

 gpsd is a service daemon that monitors one or more GPSes attached to a host
 computer through serial or USB ports, making all data on the location/course/
 velocity of the sensors available to be queried on TCP port 2947 of the host
 computer.
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 With gpsd, multiple GPS client applications can share access to GPSes without
 contention or loss of data. Also, gpsd responds to queries with a format that
 is substantially easier to parse than the NMEA 0183 emitted by most GPSes.