A month ago I discovered that Koen Kooi had ported GpsDrive to Maemo and put up word on the original 770 ersatz blog. (Where was that? I've already lost track.)

His port of this app still hasn't shown up in the list on the wiki and I haven't heard a word from anyone interested or intrigued by it.

The question that hadn't been answered was whether the 770 would be able to take input directly from a GPS receiver, and that information is now in. Alexander responded in a comment at Koen's blog that:
>>Yes, 770 will be able to connect to the Bluetooth-equipped GPS receiver using BT Serial Port profile. All you need for that is to get a console and configure BT connection.

There's a whole load of devices listed that the software is compatible with.

Given that GpsDrive (see below) can display street maps as well as topographical maps and the 770 screen offers such detail, this seems like a good combo. Of course, if you know where you are, you can enter the information manually too.

You can see a screen capture from Koen's port (resized but still bigger than 770-screen-lifesize) in the news section of this blog:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/content/view/94/2/

GpsDrive on maemo
http://dominion.kabel.utwente.nl/koe...ive-maemo.html

You can learn more about GpsDrive from its main site:
GpsDrive
http://gpsdrive.kraftvoll.at/index.shtml
>>GpsDrive is a car (bike, ship, plane) navigation system. GpsDrive displays your position provided from your NMEA capable GPS receiver on a zoomable map, the map file is autoselected depending of the position and prefered scale. Speech output is supported if the "festival" software is running. The maps are autoselected for best resolution depending of your position and can be downloaded from Internet.

Oh, yeah, the website says you can download NASA satellite images for this. I don't think the image in Koen's example is one of those. Or is it? If you look at the Italy photo at GpsDrive, it's very similar.