James Hiebert <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 08:47:16AM +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: >> Would an alternative be to have ogpsd feed nmea or ubx to real gpsd? > > Well on my Freerunner, ogpsd gets UBX packets from the ogpsd.gpsdevice. > Seems like it'd be relatively straightforward to just pass them through, if > esr-gpsd can consume them.
gpsd can consume UBX at least here yes. > This seems like a bad idea, though. I would assume that the gpsd > layer is there for a reason... mostly so that the application can be > insulated from gps and hardware specific issues. Such an argument > is addressed here: > http://gpsd.berlios.de/faq.html#why_not_parse_nmea I am not sure what you mean. Applications that use gpsd do not see UBX even though gpsd reads UBX. They are insulated from hardware specific details. > http://gypsy.freedesktop.org/why-not-gpsd.html > my understanding is that if we wrote a dbus interface for foxtrot, fox could > just register for the signals and then sleep between updates, conserving the > battery. But is gypsy the right protocol? I understood that it was never in any distro and its development has slowed down. On modern desktop environments you nowadays see geoclue dbus api instead, http://geoclue.freedesktop.org/ _______________________________________________ This message is sent to you from [email protected] mailing list. Visit http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss-gps to manage your subscription For more information, check http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS-GPS
