is GeoClue using GPSD?

[Bastien Nocera]

On Sun, 2017-02-26 at 17:42 +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> Hi Nikolai,
> 
> On 26 February 2017 at 14:29, Nikolai Neff <nineff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > Currently I'm trying to get Gnome Maps to display my location based
> > on my
> > USB-GPS receiver (NL-602U). However geoclue seems to only provide
> > very rough
> > data based on my IP address. The receiver is working fine with GPSD
> > and its
> > clients like Navit.
> > 
> > I couldn't really find any documentation regarding the use of GPS
> > in
> > combination with GeoClue, so that's why I'm asking here.
> 
> Unfortunately there is no support currently:
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/geoclue/2015-June/000687.html
> (please read that thread on this topic) but the network NMEA source
> mentioned in there has been in place for a while now so it shouldn't
> be a huge task at all to get geoclue to make use of GPSD.

I'd recommend making it use gypsy instead:
http://gypsy.freedesktop.org/why-not-gpsd.html

I'd recommend having an application feed data from gpsd into Geoclue,
which would allow testing and configuring those stand-alone GPS
devices.

> > However I was able
> > to find a seemingly outdated geoclue-gpsd package for Ubuntu
> > (http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/utils/geoclue-gpsd) from 2012.
> > 
> > You can see a screenshot of the vastly different results cgps and
> > geoclue
> > give me here: http://imgur.com/a/vBu99
> 
> Ubuntu still packages and uses the deprecated and unsupported geoclue
> implementation so ignore them. :)
>