[Xastir-dev] args to data_add()

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Wendell Turner wrote:

> > > - a udp input routine in the main loop (optional, I'll look into
> > >   using gpsd instead, since that is the 'xastir way')
> > >
> > I think GPSD would be a better way to go.
>
> Is there a way for xastir to ask gpsd for the callsign and
> altitude?  I didn't see that in the gpsd documents.  Also, there
> is just one gpsd for everything, right?  Not a gpsd running
> for each peer entity, correct?

Just one gpsd.  It's assumed that gpsd instance is giving you YOUR
position, not anyone elses.

In order to provide positions of other people, you'd have to provide
OpenTrac or APRS simulated packets into the normal Xastir decoding
somehow.

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