On Sun, 2017-02-26 at 17:42 +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > Hi Nikolai, > > On 26 February 2017 at 14:29, Nikolai Neff <[email protected]> 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'd recommend having an application feed data from gpsd into Geoclue, which would allow testing and configuring those stand-alone GPS devices. > > However I was able > > to find a seemingly outdated geoclue-gpsd package for Ubuntu > > (http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/utils/geoclue-gpsd) from 2012. > > > > You can see a screenshot of the vastly different results cgps and > > geoclue > > give me here: http://imgur.com/a/vBu99 > > Ubuntu still packages and uses the deprecated and unsupported geoclue > implementation so ignore them. :) > _______________________________________________ GeoClue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/geoclue
