Geoclue2 and GPSD

[Bastien Nocera]

On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 16:50 +0300, Александр Волков wrote:
> 25.06.2015 16:07, Bastien Nocera пишет:
> > > 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.
> I don't really understand you. What do mean by "calibrated"?

He meant setup/paired/etc.

> Why don't just take values provided by GPSd?

Because gpsd is awful:
http://gypsy.freedesktop.org/why-not-gpsd.html

> Why should you care whether GPSd sees a GPS device or not?