Comments on: GPSd under OS X

By: Dabbler : GPSDrive on OS X

Dabbler : GPSDrive on OS X — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:48:51 +0000

[...] on OS X, I set my sights on GPSDrive, an open source navigation and map viewing program. When I posted about GPS a couple years ago, I installed GPSDrive, using the version from Fink. However, the latest version of GPSDrive on Fink [...]

By: Dabbler : GPSd under OS X (revisited)

Dabbler : GPSd under OS X (revisited) — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:07:31 +0000

[...] been almost 2 and half years since I originally posted about GPSd and OS X. That post got quite a bit of traffic for a while, but a whole lot has changed since then. If [...]

By: iPhoto, Geotagging, GPS and the Mac: A Post-Macworld Roundup | Maps & Atlas

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:16:11 +0000

[...] files, one about using an old Garmin GPS. And, for those who like to futz with the command line, Seth describes how he got the GPSd daemon working under OS X (via Make: [...]

By: GPS hacken unter Mac OS X: Handgemachte Geolocation auf dem Mac » MACNOTES.DE

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:07:50 +0000

[...] sich sein Geolocation-Tool selber zusammenhacken möchte: Seth Just hat eine Anleitung veröffentlicht, wie man unter Mac OS X billige GPS-Module via USB zur Kommunikation mit dem GPS-Daemon GPSd [...]

By: sethjust

sethjust — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:50:27 +0000

I haven’t used the MacPorts version, but as long as it will talk to whatever GPS you have, it should work. The only reason I used the most recent RC is that it was more likely to have fixed some bugs. Also, older ports have some bugs with unit conversions supposedly, which is why the fink GPSd shouldn’t be used.
As to getting MacPorts GPSd and Fink gpsdrive talking, GPSd is a TCP daemon, which means that it communicates with other programs over the network. Once gpsd is running (wherever the file is located) clients will connect to it on localhost:2947.

By: cardinalbiggles

cardinalbiggles — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:47:03 +0000

I just took a look, and MacPorts has gpsd version 2.30 – it does not have gpsdrive however. I run both Fink and MacPorts, but I haven’t tried getting them communicating as I don’t have a usb gps, but I’m assuming at the most, a simple ‘ln -s’ would so the trick. The big question is if 2.30 is a late enough version.