On 28 February 2017 at 11:34, Bastien Nocera <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
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. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali _______________________________________________ GeoClue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/geoclue
