[Xastir] More info - xastir v. gpsd / direct

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 20 May 2005, Richard E. Polivka wrote:

> We may have a winner here - at least a good solid comparison.
>
> This is a sentence from decode_gps_gga with data from gpsd:
> $GPGGA,110413,4301.1515,N,8803.0402,W,3,05,6.80,230.6,M,-34.460,M,,*7B
>
> This is a sentence from decode_gps_gga with data direct from
> /dev/ttyUSB0 w/o gpsd:
> $GPGGA,003501.903,4301.1474,N,08803.0363,W,1,04,1.9,204.4,M,-34.2,M,0.0,0000*4E
>
> gpsd is breaking my location. I still indicate 180 W. My previous post
> was in error for I forgot
> to restart xastir after changing sources and making sure that gpsd is
> unloaded when not using it.

Until recently I had not seen a GPS that didn't do 4 digits before
the decimal for lat, 5 digits for long.  After some of your postings
I went looking for others and found some that didn't zero-fill to
4/5 digits, and one that did 5 digits for both.  The latest Xastir
CVS code fixes most of these, so it fixes problems you haven't come
across yet.

I don't think I fixed the 5 digits for both problem though.  That
one may have been a typo in the GPS receiver spec I was reading.  It
just seems too weird.

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