Re: [gpsd-users] Using gpsd vs gpsdecode

[Tomalak Geret'kal]

On 02/08/2012 06:14, Roy Barkas wrote:
> I currently use gpsdecode for decoding GPS NMEA/AIS 
> messages received.  I load a copy of gpsdecode into a 
> ramdisk and run it as an exec from PHP capturing JSON output.
>
> This works fine and I don't currently have any bandwidth 
> issues, but it strikes me as clunky, potentially 
> unreliable and uber-oldschool (this is how I might have 
> done this kind of thing 30 years ago).
>
> Can I use gpsd in more or less the same way - i.e. feed it 
> gps or AIS sentences via a socket and receive json back?
>
> Thanks
> RB

What problems do you foresee with your current approach, 
other than that you can picture yourself having used it 
thirty years ago? Or is it just that?

Seems like the appropriate tool for the job to me. Just 
because something was the right way to do it X years ago 
(where X > Y) doesn't automatically mean it can no longer be 
so today.

Tom