[ gpsdrive ] More compile errors

[Alex Cruz]

On Friday 12 October 2007, Joerg Ostertag wrote:
> Am Freitag, 12. Oktober 2007 16:59:06 schrieb Alex Cruz:
> > Joerg,
> > That worked perfectly. I was able to compile the svn from the weekend
> > with now. Get some rest and I hope you feel better soon.
> >
> > Now comes the interesting part. After installing MySQL, rebuilding Perl
> > with ithreads (the woes of Gentoo) and installing a plethora of Perl
> > modules, I was able to run this command:
> >
> > ./geoinfo.pl -create-db -fill-defaults -openstreetmap  -db-user=root
> > -db-password=mysupersecretpswd
> >
> > This did a fine job of downloading the planet file and taking a really
> > long time to complete. But it did complete successfully since I now have
> > POI's in my maps that weren't there before.
>
> Great :-)
>
> > Next, I wanted to try the mapnik mode in gpsdrive. So, I ran this
> > command:
> >
> > python /usr/local/bin/gpsdrive_mapnik_gentiles.py -b
> > "-180.0,-90.0,180.0,90.0" -s 1-6
>
> This part of the description is old. You only have to install the mapnik
> database. If you havn't been successfull yet, you might want to try to use
> the script at:
> http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/mapnik/update-mapnik-fr
>om-planet.sh This will create the necessary users, download most of the
> mapnik stuff and import it into the database.
> If this part is done you simply should be able to switch mapnik mode to on
> an you should have your osm map visible.

 Ok, looking through the code of that script, it appears that it's using 
PostgreSQL for the DB. Does that mean that I need to have postgresql running 
in order to use the mapnik mode in gpsdrive?

-alex