is GeoClue using GPSD?

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

Hi,

On 28 February 2017 at 11:26, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
> 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 think more relevant fact here is that Gypsy has been completely
unmaintained for years now so I wouldn't want to depend on it unless
the situation changes.

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

Or GPSD can be made to do that itself?

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali