Hi, On 28 February 2017 at 11:26, Bastien Nocera <[email protected]> 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 <[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 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. > I'd recommend having an application feed data from gpsd into Geoclue, > which would allow testing and configuring those stand-alone GPS > devices. Or GPSD can be made to do that itself? -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali _______________________________________________ GeoClue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/geoclue
