[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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