On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 11:30 +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > 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.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. > > 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? It could, but it's still an awful piece of code. _______________________________________________ GeoClue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/geoclue
