[Qgis-user] Stuck GPS

[Tomáš Vrána]

Dne 15.11.2012 19:45, Tomáš Vrána napsal(a):
> Hi,
>
> for some time I have not used GPS live tracking in Qgis. Now I have 
> tried it, and it seems like there is some strange problem. Reported 
> GPS coordinates are stuck to unchanging values. When I run GPS via 
> gpsd, I can verify that GPS reports different, correct coords (via 
> xgps). I running Qgis 1.8.0 on openSuse linux, I have also tried 
> latest git master with same results. I am rather desperate and fresh 
> out of ideas.
>
> Tom
>
>
Problem fixed... Qgis uses string to double conversion function that is 
locale dependent. NMEA messages from GPS use . decimal separator. So if 
you current locale has different decimal separator, then you get only 
the part before dot, which makes the position seem stuck. Will be 
reporting that. Meanwhile setting

export LC_NUMERIC=en_US.utf8

before running Qgis does the trick.

Tom

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