Re: [gpsd-users] [Gpsd-users] DGPS Status

[Matthew Beckman]

On 10/04/2011 05:27 PM, Gary E. Miller wrote:
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> Yo Matthew!
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> On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, Matthew Beckman wrote:
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> > I am not quite sure what you mean. I just turn on the GPS, and it is reporting
> > that it using a DGPS signal, via the GPRMC and GPGGA messages. I am not doing
> > anything special.
> DGPS requires an external correction input stream.  You are not really
> getting DGPS without it.  Some GPS, for stupid backward compatibilty
> reasons, mistakenly set the DGPS flag when they are getting a WAAS
> corrected signal.
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> BTW, please keep the gpsd-users in the Cc:, so others may also follow
> along.
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> RGDS
> GARY
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This would make sense. To answer your question, I am not sending any 
external streams. I will assume then that my unit is getting a WAAS 
signal. Is there any flag in NMEA/GPSD to detect this?