is GeoClue using GPSD?

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

On 28 February 2017 at 11:34, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 11:30 +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> 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.h
>> > > tml
>> > > (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.
>
> The difference in quality between the two really hasn't changed, fwiw.

Sure but unmaintained code means a lot of problems. E.g I recently had
to kick the entire navigation framework from Genivi Dev Platform
because it was requiring gypsy and gypsy doesn't build with latest
gcc.



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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali