osx-location

osx-location is a utility for querying CoreLocation services on Mac OS X from the command command-line.

Example:

$ make
$ ./location --help
--count <number>         Wait for this many responses (default: 1).
--debug                  Output helpful debugging info.
--format <format>        Set the output format (default: key-value).
--help                   Show this help.
Formats available:
              k = key-value
              j = Geo JSON
              s = SBS-1 ADS-B


$ ./location --debug 
location service enabled
<+40.696969,-73.420420> +/- 65.00m (speed -1.00 mps / course -1.00) @ 6/18/13 8:43:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time
timestamp: 2013-06-19 00:43:43 +0000
latitude,longitude: 40.696969,-73.420420
altitude: 26.000000
horizontalAccuracy: 65.000000
verticalAccuracy: 10.000000
speed: -1.000000
course: -1.000000

Credits

• Originally by [email protected] - https://gist.github.com/tmiz/1416248
• Options parsing stolen from dump1090 - https://github.com/antirez/dump1090