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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2006-11-07 23:09:42 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2006-11-07 23:09:42 +0000
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@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ GPS Hall of Shame
<a href="xgps-sample.html">Screenshots</a><br/>
<a href="index.html#recipes">Recipes</a><br/>
<a href="index.html#others">Other GPSDs</a><br/>
+ Hall of Shame</br>
<a href="hardware.html">Hardware</a><br/>
+ <a href="hacking.html">Hacker's Guide</a><br/>
<a href="references.html">References</a><br/>
<a href="hardware.html">Hardware</a><br/>
History<br/>
@@ -40,9 +42,10 @@ GPS Hall of Shame
<div id="Content">
-<p>The GPS world is full of shoddy, poorly-documented designs. All too
-many devices have behaviors that drive the harried maintainers of GPSD
-to shake their heads and mutter <q>What where they <em>thinking</em></q>?</p>
+<p>The GPS world is full of shoddy, poorly-documented designs. All
+too many devices have behaviors that drive the harried maintainers of
+<code>gpsd</code> to shake their heads and mutter <q>What where they
+<em>thinking</em></q>?</p>
<p>This page goes beyond the merely ordinary and commemorates the
really <em>special</em> blunders &mdash; bugs and design errors so
@@ -78,6 +81,14 @@ packet incorrectly. If you trust them, you will extract garbage from
good packets.</p></li>
</ul>
+<h2>Design blunders</h2>
+
+<ul>
+<li><p>SiRF binary mode, which is supposed to be the vendor's
+all-singing-all-dancing better-than-NMEA protocol, delivers HDOP but
+not PDOP or VDOP. SiRFs in NMEA mode deliver all three.</p></li>
+</ul>
+
</div>
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