gpsd with python project

[Al Grant]

Hello,

I am looking to get started with gpsd and python - but before I go too
far I am hopeful that some of the people here can confirm my thinking.

My setup is a RaspPI, USB GPS (Ublox based) and Python - I am however
doing the development on Windows 10.

The python project is to do with wildlife tracking for conservation
and running on a RaspPi will be a payload on a drone - every few
seconds I am expecting the python code on the drone to meet certain
conditions and record a location with some meta data.

It seems like I could program python to work with the gps directly
(yuck), there may be other python gps libs, or I could run gpsd.

Is gpsd designed to be an easy interface for programmers to work with?

Only drawback I see at this point is I won't be able to develop with
it on my windows PC?

As an aside does anyone know of a good lib for plotting points on a
map in python and some very light geospatial work like like
intersection?

Thanks

Al