Tried GPSMan on the boat today, and it doesn't do chartplotting. Whatever the docs say. Looks like I'm writing a myself a chartplotter - if I skip any semblance of UI, it should be easy enough: load background image and its coordinates from file; get data from GPS, transform, plot on image, save, rinse, repeat. Watch the resulting file(s) through gqview (which updates itself automatically when the file changes).
Update at midnight: I now have half a clew: that's what I've decided to call the program, and it's about half done. The image handling and coordinate transforms seem to work. All I need now is to get data from the GPS and put the pieces together. So far so good.
Update 2: A little over 24 hours later, it's at the "works for me" stage. E-mail me if you want it, I'll stick the GPL on it and send it to you. Take a look at the manual, such as it is. Download it.
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