[ gpsdrive ] Database-support, WLAN-checkbox in GUI and "Map scrolling"

[Guenther Meyer]

Am Sonntag 13 April 2008 schrieb Jannis Achstetter:
> Hello list, hello devs,
>
> after I finally found myself motivated enough to set up a
> postgis-database to get mapnik running I decided to upgrade gpsdrive and
> make it use mapnik.
great!

> To be honest: It was quite some work since it seems that there were some
> hardcoded paths in the configs (osm-template.xml mainly) that only exist
> in debian, not in gentoo (socket of postgresql or the path to the
> dejavu-font).
so the paths are different there?
as we are primarily developing on debian, we dont' know the specifics of other 
distributions. I guess ther is also some kind of control file that controls 
the installation? maybe you could create such thing with the appropriate 
files, so we can provide an easy installation for gentoo, too?

> Still, I got this thing working and gpsdrive displays the mapnik-tiles
> quite perfect (though the symbol for parking is the german "absolutes
> halteverbot"-sign).
yes, there are a lot of icons that have to be cleaned up...

> Now for the reason I'm writing this mail. The new version of gpsdrive
> looks very good (great work put into it) but there are some things I
> didn't yet figure out:
> - As I can see, by default all the POI and WLAN-data is stored in an
> SQLite-file. Can I change back to the old behavior of using a
> MySQL-database?
no. mysql-support has been removed, because there was no real reason to keep 
this.

> - Where has the checkbox to select the display of WLAN-POIs gone? Yes, I
> can toggle that with the POI-checkbox but shouldn't that be split again?
the handling of wlan points has been integrated into the poi-management. if 
you want to enable/disable the display for some types you can configure this 
in the poi settings.

> - In previous versions we were able to "scroll" the map using the
> "Position mode". How can I do this now?
that's still possible. you can find the poi mode button under map control.

> - Can I enable "-a" (display APM stuff (battery status, temperature)) by
> default with some option in the config-file?
>
hmm, I guess we forgot this ;)
I justed checked it into the svn...
the option is called "show_apm = 1"

> Nevertheless, thanks for continuously improving this great piece of
> software ;)
>
thanks for the feedback!




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