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roadgps(1)                                                          roadgps(1)


NAME

       roadgps - GPS status console


SYNTAX

       roadgps [--location=longitude,latitude] [--metric] [--imperial]
       [--geometry[:window]=widthxheight] [--no-toolbar] [--no-icon]
       [--gps=url] [--debug[=source]] [--verbose] [--help]


DESCRIPTION

       A very handy GPS console, inspired by the Garmin satellite status page,
       with a NMEA log capability.  Thanks to gpsd, roadgps and roadmap can be
       active at the same time. The roadgps program was intended to be started
       from the roadmap menu.

       More information is available in the RoadMap online help.


OPTIONS

       Most options may also be set as preferences. In fact, when an option
       matches a preferences item, using the option does modify the
       preferences item as well.  As a consequence the effect of theses
       options will be permanent until the same option is used again or the
       associated preference item has been changed.  Because the same
       preferences are used by roadmap and roadgps, using any of those options
       with one program will impact the other.

       An option with no associated preference item behaves in a more
       traditional way, i.e. its effect is valid for that command only.

       --location=longitude,latitude
              Set the current location point (see menu entry View/Show
              Location..).  Preference item: Locations.Location.

       --metric
              Use the metric system for all units.  Preference item:
              General.Unit = metric.

       --imperial
              Use the imperial system for all units.  Preference item:
              General.Unit = imperial.

       --geometry[:window]=widthxheight
              Set the geometry of a specific RoadMap window, identified by
              it's title. If no window title is provided, this defines the
              geometry of the main window.  If the window's title includes any
              space, dashes can be used in place of the spaces (the goal here
              is to be shell friendly).  Preference item: Geometry.window.

       --no-toolbar
              Do not show the toolbar.  Preference item: General.Toolbar = no.

       --no-icon
              Do not show any icon (presumably to keep as much space as
              possible for the map).  Preference item: General.Icons = no

       --gps=url
              Use the specified GPS source. Two URL formats only are
              supported: "gpsd://host/" (access the GPS through a gpsd server)
              and "file://path" or "path" (path must be a full path).  As an
              exception, this option is not sticky: it does override the
              related preferences item, but the preferences are not modified.
              The main rational for this behavior is to make it painless to
              replay GPS logs.

       --debug[=source]
              Print debug messages. If a source file is provided, only debug
              messages generated from that source file are printed.

       --verbose
              Enable some log messages (a subset of the debug messages).

       --help Show a description of the program options and quit.


FILES

       ~/.roadmap/preferences
       /etc/roadmap/preferences
       /usr/share/roadmap/preferences


BUGS

       The roadgps program should really not decode all the roadmap command
       line options, some of which have no effect on roadgps.


AUTHORS

       Pascal Martin <pascal.martin@ponts.org>

       This manual page was written by Petter Reinholdtsen for the Debian
       package.


SEE ALSO

       gpsd(1) roadmap(1)

Petter Reinholdtsen                  1.0.8                          roadgps(1)

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