Hi Nikolai, Just so you know, we now have basic support for standalone GPS devices through a new piece of Software I've written: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2017-May/msg00027.html
On 28 February 2017 at 15:34, Bastien Nocera <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 12:42 +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: >> 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/0006 >> > > > > 87.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. > > It's probably easier to fix the few warnings or errors in gypsy than to > make gpsd's architecture sensible. We can even figure out how to give > write access to the repo if that's going to be of help. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali _______________________________________________ GeoClue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/geoclue
