[Merkaartor] Refactoring GPS/ directory
Dirk Stöcker
openstreetmap at dstoecker.de
Mon Sep 8 08:50:54 BST 2008
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Chris Browet wrote:
> From the gpsd main page: "gpsd is a service daemon that monitors one or
> more GPSes attached to a host computer through serial or USB ports"
>
> So, unless you use a usb GPS (an even usb is a serial protocol), there
> is simply no added value that I can think of to use gpsd (besides the
> fact that it is a Linux standard and that it is network enabled).
It allows to have more than one application using the data simultaneous.
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