[Xastir] gpsd issues...possible solutions

[Curt, WE7U]

Derrick:  Did you make note of this?  Can you fix up gpsd?


On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Richard E. Polivka wrote:

> software: gpsd-2.23
> GPS: M$ GPS Locator (SiRF Star-II Xtrac / ver 231...ES)
>
> In geoid.c: ecef_to_wgs84fix() appears to output meters/min to
> fix->speed and not meters/sec - added " / 60 " to compensate.
>
> In libgpsd_core.c: gpsd_binary_fix_dump() printed out meters/sec instead
> of knots in $GPRMC. " session->gpsdata.fix.speed * 1.94384449 " to
> compensate. Maybe use MPS_TO_KNOTS as the factor.
>
> In xgpsspeed.c: default to KNOTS_TO_MPH is wrong. It should be
> MPS_TO_MPH since geoid.c puts out meters/sec now.
>
> These may not be the appropriate fixes but this takes care of the speed
> errors in the NMEA sentence, and XGPS and XGPSSPEED reading correctly.

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