[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#456149: gpsdrive: Doesn't display my altitude

[Andreas Putzo]

Hi Hamish,

glad to see you working on gpsdrive.. :)

On Dec 16  22:55, Hamish wrote:
> I was having this problem with my BU-353 USB-puck GPS a little while ago.
> The gpsd "cgps" program put it into SiRF binary mode without me asking,
> and that creates (AFAICT) pseudo-NMEA strings when a client asks for raw
> mode.
> 
> no idea if it helps with the Garmin,

I think the problem with (most?) garmin devices has been fixed in gpsd already.
As an alternative one could use the dbus interface to gpsd as well.
I opened a bug in the gpsdrive tracker to use libgps or similar in the
future and remove gpsdrive's own nmea handler.

Cheers, 
Andreas