GSM location service

[Baruch Even]

* Sascha Wessel <wessel at nefkom.net> [080925 18:41]:
> > > > The interface all applications use is the Gypsy interface
> > > 
> > > Do you mean gpsd?
> > 
> > Gypsy is the dbus interface used in FSO, the exact daemon that
> > implements it is not important to me. gpsd is the old daemon which is
> > being emulated by fso-gpsd for applications that weren't ported to dbus.
> 
> I was irritated by the phrase 'all applications'... Since the interface
> all applications use is the old gpsd interface. This was the reason why
> I wrote fso-gpsd... :P

But now it means that if I hijack Gypsy I don't need to write
geoclue-gpsd :-)

> > My thought was to hijack the Gypsy interface to work with all existing
> > GPS programs but I guess that the real solution will be to use GeoClue
> > for the external interface and internally use Gypsy for real GPS data.
> 
> Until then maybe I can help with some quick and dirty hack for test
> purposes...

That would be nice!

Cheers,
Baruch