[ gpsdrive ] Mapnik module

[Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany)]

On Dienstag 16 Oktober 2007, Alex Cruz wrote:
> The story so far:
> I ran mapnik-osm-updater.sh --grant_db_users=* and that fixed the
> permissions for my user. Next, I ran ./mapnik-osm-updater.sh --count_db
> --debug and this is all that came back:

Did you run it as root?

...

> cannot read shape file

This message normally tells us, mapnik cant read the workd boudaries

> (gpsdrive:27570): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_statusbar_push: assertion
> `GTK_IS_STATUSBAR (statusbar)' failed
> Read 502 POI-Types from /usr/local/share/map-icons/icons.xml
> map_koord.txt reloaded
> /home/alex/.gpsdrive/way.txt reloaded
>
> I now have roads defined however, there are no names listed. 

This might be because the font-file used use for mapnik is hardcoded in 
src/mapnik.cpp. You might want to add a configuration parameter for this.

> Next, I ran 
> python to check the mapnik module. The output:
... 
> >>> from mapnik import *

This means you're missing the mapnik-python bindings. But you normally don't 
need them anyhow.

> P.S. I install the world boundaries, too.

Check if the place for the worldboundaries is the same as the place seen in 
the ~/.gpsdrive/osm.xml

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Joerg