Geoclue2 and GPSD

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Thu Jun 25 06:38:28 PDT 2015


On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 14:02 +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Александр Волков <
>> a.volkov at rusbitech.ru> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Sorry for late reply.
>>
>> > any plans to receive GPS data from GPSD?
>>
>> None. I was hoping to do that but Bastien informed me that standalone
>> GPS devices need to be calibrated etc by Apps so apps are better off
>> talking directly to GPSD.
>
> Another way to solve that problem, in the future, might be to offer
> GPSd's data over the network, in the same way that we're doing for
> phones. This will mean no additional configuration necessary at
> Geoclue's level, but people who want to feed it GPS data can do so
> anyway.

But you'll still need an app that runs to configure the GPS device?

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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