[Xastir] Xastir 1.5 and ESR's gpsd daemon - longitude bad

[Derrick J Brashear]

There are more contributors than ESR; The original author was Remco 
Treffkorn.

Anyway, does your receiver put out only GGA, or other sentences also? If 
the latter, can we see them?

On Sun, 15 May 2005, Richard E. Polivka wrote:

> gpsd 2.23 (in SI-RF binary mode)
> MS GPS Locator (SI-RF unit)
> xastir 1.5 - interface gpsd 127.0.0.1:2947
>
> Have program set up to get GPS data via gpsd. Xastir says data bad when xgps 
> is receiving good data. Lat/long appear to be high precision: 43.019579 
> -88.050531. This is polled from 127.0.0.1:2947 (gpsd port) by using telnet.
>
> When running debug at level 1023, the display strings from gpsd appear to be 
> fine. Here is one string:
>
> $GPGGA,154505,4301.1500,N,8803.0378,W,2,03,8.00,218.0,M,-34.460,M,,*76
>
> So with this data, the latitude comes out right but the program puts the 
> longitude at -180 deg.
>
> Any thoughts that I could try out?
>
> 73,
>
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