[ gpsdrive ] Vector data (OSM, WDB) failed to insert to mysql and displaying in gpsdrive

[Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany)]

On Thursday 09 August 2007 22:55, Tamas Szabo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using gpsdrive-2.10svn15113909, and I would like to try vector map.
>
> I followed instruction in README.OpenStreetMap-Vektordata:
>
> geoinfo.pl --db-user=root --db-password='mypwd' --create-db --fill-defaults
>
>geoinfo.pl --db-user=root --db-password='mypwd' --osm 

Ups, ....

this part of the README is a little bit outdated.
This Programm still exists and has it's use, but only will be used for the 
point of interrests to insert into the database.
The problem is that this option (--osm) only works if you have at least 4GB of 
RAM or if you specify the area option. So for example the call would be:

	geoinfo.pl --db-user=root --db-password='mypwd' --osm --area=germany

But on the other Hand inserting wdb should work with less memory. But after 
this the vectordata is only in the mysql database which is almost not or 
really purely rendered. So this probably doesn't make too much sense to use.
I'll probably rip this part out of gpsdrive soon. This was kind of a proof of 
concept to work with real Vectordata.

But if you only like to have good Vectormaps, please follow the instructions 
for installing mapnik for GpsDrive.
	Documentation/install-mapnik-osm.txt

There are already some basic debian packages for this purpose:
	openstreetmap-mapnik-data
	openstreetmap-mapnik-world-boundaries

-

Joerg