On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 07:12 -0800, Michael A Peters wrote: > > What I would like to do is to be able to read waypoints right off the > unit through a cable (either serial or, if one is available, a USB > cable) into Linux. It also would be nice to hand make some maps that I > can use to easily return to a particular spot A sourceforge project called Viking looks like it fits the map making aspect. It also can read waypoints and tracks from the GPS (at least one connected via serial port - It doesn't link against libusb so I don't think they have added USB support yet)