If you have one device on your local network that has the ability to access GPS and another one that doesn’t, GPS-Share make it easy on you to share that location between the two devices via the local network, aka LAN.
So by using GPS-Share you’ll be able to enjoy the benefits of location based services on devices that doesn’t necessarily comes with a GPS receiver.
The project’s specified goals are to:
- “Share your GPS device on the local network so that all machines in your home or office can make use of it.”
- “Enable support for standalone (i-e not part of a cellular modem) GPS devices in Geoclue.”
GPS-Share is entirely coded in Rust (a fast, modern, programming language). It currently supports devices that “present themselves as serial port”, nonetheless “Many USB [devices] are expected to work out of the box but bluetooth devices need manual intervention to be mounted”.
At the moment, Linux is the main targeted platform for GPS-Share to run on, although it may also work on other POSIX compatible platforms.
“Patches to add/fix support for non-Linux systems, are more than welcome” says the developer of GPS-Share – Zeeshan.
For more details on GPS-Share feel free to visit the project’s page.
