is GeoClue using GPSD?

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

Hi Nikolai,

Just so you know, we now have basic support for standalone GPS devices
through a new piece of Software I've written:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2017-May/msg00027.html

On 28 February 2017 at 15:34, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 12:42 +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> 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/0006
>> > > > > 87.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.
>
> It's probably easier to fix the few warnings or errors in gypsy than to
> make gpsd's architecture sensible. We can even figure out how to give
> write access to the repo if that's going to be of help.



-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali