[Xastir] gpsd issues...possible solutions

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Curt, WE7U wrote:

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

I'm sort of reluctant to touch it until Eric finishes his latest round of 
changes, but I will look after he has. Also, isn't 2.23 old hat now?

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