Finally managed to get a new bicycle after moving back to #portugal so I started doing bike rides in the weekends again.
Riding a bike in Lisbon is a whole different beast, compared to where I lived before in Germany. With all the hills inside the city. Specially if you are out of shape :)
Also managed to record the bike ride with the #librem5 gps, using #gnss traces. Also #shotonlibrem5 :)
Last Saturday there was a dust cloud over Lisbon from the Sahara desert.
https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2024-04-03/saharan-dust-cloud-returning-to-portugal/87562
At least I got to test that the #Librem5 #gps can work with mild desert dust clouds 😅
But it did took a bit longer than what I expected to get a fix.
@joao I wonder if the Librem5 / PopOS are only using GPS satellites for a location fix? This is more accurate but slower. Elsewhere, typically a fix is gotten from WiFi and Cell Tower maps first, and then honed to a more precise location after a satellite link is made.
@Blort you have:
GPS -> gnss-share -> geoclue -> phosh -> Any maps application.
Geoclue can also get data from other sources.
In this case satellite-gtk only looks at gnss-share.
There are ways to get a faster gps lock. like this:
https://source.puri.sm/-/snippets/1207
To generate to generate fresh almanac and ephemeris data for GPS.
And there is this, but I have never tried it:
Well that map has been getting bigger :)
Ridding a bicycle in Lisbon is not as bad as it was 7 or 10 years ago. There is a bit of more bicycle lanes.
And more car drivers are used to having bicycles on the city's streets. And I still have not gotten into an argument with a car driver, in the last month.
But you still need a certain attitude of: "I am not getting off the street because a car driver is pissed at me", to ride a bike in Lisbon.
#gnss #librem5 #lisbon #bicycles