GPSD
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- noun
- Specialized
- The GPSD software acts as a bridge between GPS hardware and applications that require real-time location tracking.
Examples
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Many navigation apps rely on GPSD to receive accurate location data from GPS devices.
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dd-wrt is to routers what gpsd is to consumer GPSes.
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I'd say that gpsd is far more a threat to your product than the other way around.
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I took GPSD as a challenge to see how far I could push autoconfiguration.
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And that's exactly what the GPSD project is.
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I like writing drivers; send me one and I'll happily work on adding support for it in gpsd.
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I don't think the GPSD developers are interested in hardware that is so different.
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In GPSD-land, we call this piece of code the packet sniffer.
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BTW, the GPSD device support code should pick the BEST (lowest error) signal, not the last one that attached.
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The problem you're seeking to solve won't be fixed by the gpsd developers; it'll be solved by actually getting the hardware out there.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
GPSD = G + P + S + D
This is an acronym formed from initial letters (G P S D); the letters are not productive English morphemes and do not transparently convey the meaning of the service.
Etymology
GPSD comes from GPS ('Global Positioning System') plus the letter -D, a short way to say a small background 'service' on a computer. So GPSD is a program that collects GPS location and shares it with apps.