After some more mucking around on a desktop with GPS setup, and taking some of those experiences over to uConsole. Here are Some updated notes on getting GPS setup properly on uConsole. This also applies to Ubuntu setups. Can't comment on the correctness for other distributions, but it should be able to serve as a guide.
This has some improvement over the older method as it no longer uses gnss-share.
NOTE: i use pam_usb for authentication so it is convienient to use sudo in my scripts so it doesn't acrually prompt for a password everytime i use it. YMMV.