Below is an example python script which will save GPS data (time, Lon, Lat, speed and sats in view) to a file.

The gpsd client libraries  will be used to get the data from GPSD. We will be using the TPV class to get time, latitude, longitude and speed.

We can get the number of satellites in view by getting the length of the satellites object.

This page shows how to get gpsd up an running on a Raspberry Pi

Every time the script is run, it will create a new file beginning with the current date and time.

In this example, I am writing in a csv format, where each GPS attribute is separated by a comma.

#! /usr/bin/python
from gps import *
import time, inspect


f = open(time.strftime("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S")+'_GSPData.csv','w')

gpsd = gps(mode=WATCH_ENABLE|WATCH_NEWSTYLE)

print 'GPStime utc\t\t\tlatitude\tlongitude\tspeed\tsats in view' # '\t' = TAB to try and output the data in columns.

f.write("GPStime utc,latitude,longitude,speed,sats in view\n")

try:

    while True:
        report = gpsd.next() #
        if report['class'] == 'TPV':
            GPStime =  str(getattr(report,'time',''))
            lat = str(getattr(report,'lat',0.0))
            lon = str(getattr(report,'lon',0.0))
            speed =  str(getattr(report,'speed','nan'))
            sats = str(len(gpsd.satellites))

            print  GPStime,"\t",
            print  lat,"\t",
            print  lon,"\t",
            print  speed,"\t",
            print  sats,"\t"

            f.write(GPStime + ',' + lat +',' + lon + ',' + speed + ',' + sats + '\n')

            time.sleep(1)

except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit): #when you press ctrl+c
    print "Done.\nExiting."
    f.close()