[ gpsdrive ] External program interfacing with gpsdrive

[stan]

Getting on ok with this, the db will need quite a bit of streamlining as there 
is a lot of duplication between the routing data and the mapnik data and they 
are in different formats. Just the combined data for France is over half a gig 
when loaded but compiling a route is quite fast, for instance it would be 
quick enough to calculate routes on the fly after taking a wrong turn.
If anyone wants a dump file of the combined db for France to try out then I'll 
set up apache tomorrow (unless there is some server space going, 150MB 
gzipped), loading the data with osm2pgrouting took 21 hours so the dump files 
are useful :)
I'll have a poke around at the poi gui tomorrow, I'm useless with gui's but I 
see its talking to the gis db directly so should be able to get something 
working there.
The metrics for the route plotting will need some thought too, by default the 
shortest route is plotted, fine if walking but not so good in a car. It's 
simple enough to manipulate the search for different transport types but can 
cause a fairly big hit in performance, another option is to keep columns in 
the db for 3 or 4 types of transport types making the db bigger but keeping 
good performance, I'm guessing this is the way to go?
Anyway, things are looking good so far, the data is proving a lot more usable 
than it first seemed.
cheers