From de2f164ecb1c585d2506b7e50f6126803975f914 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric S. Raymond" 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 The GPS world is full of shoddy, poorly-documented designs. All
+too many devices have behaviors that drive the harried maintainers of
+ This page goes beyond the merely ordinary and commemorates the
really special blunders — bugs and design errors so
@@ -78,6 +81,14 @@ packet incorrectly. If you trust them, you will extract garbage from
good packets. 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.
Other GPSDs
Hardware
+ Hall of Shame
Hacker's Guide
References
History
diff --git a/www/hacking.html b/www/hacking.html
index 3cba54ce..81291259 100644
--- a/www/hacking.html
+++ b/www/hacking.html
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
Recipes
Other GPSDs
Hardware
+ Hall of Shame
+ Hacker's Guide
References
History
diff --git a/www/hall-of-shame.html b/www/hall-of-shame.html
index 5500be71..abae8e4b 100644
--- a/www/hall-of-shame.html
+++ b/www/hall-of-shame.html
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ GPS Hall of Shame
Screenshots
Recipes
Other GPSDs
+ Hall of Shame
Hardware
+ Hacker's Guide
References
Hardware
History
@@ -40,9 +42,10 @@ GPS Hall of Shame
What where they thinking
?gpsd
to shake their heads and mutter What where they
+thinking
?Design blunders
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/www/history.html b/www/history.html
index d655b9c6..def0973d 100644
--- a/www/history.html
+++ b/www/history.html
@@ -26,8 +26,9 @@ A Brief History of GPSD
Recipes
Other GPSDs
Hardware
+ Hall of Shame
+ Hacker's Guide
References
- Hardware
History
Recipes
Other GPSDs
Hardware
+ Hall of Shame
+ Hacker's Guide
References
History
@@ -207,6 +209,9 @@ list of NMEA sentences.
We maintain a GPS Hall of Shame +that describes particularly egregious vendor blunders.
+