is GeoClue using GPSD?

[Nikolai Neff]

Nice, thank you.

Unfurtunaltely, I can't test this for the next weeks, but I'll get to it 
using several USB GPS Recievers.

Am 30.05.2017 um 07:57 schrieb 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.
>
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