[ gpsdrive ] External program interfacing with gpsdrive

[Guenther Meyer]

Am Dienstag 26 August 2008 schrieb Hamish:
> > gpsdrive without the mapnik/postgis stuff should work on
> > almost any device, I guess. but someone has to do the port...
>
> [naively asks]  how about the ARM package here:
>   http://packages.debian.org/sid/gpsdrive
>
oh, nice. didn't know that!

> > our hope is, that those mobile devices have enough resources
> > to run gpsdrive with fullfeatured mapnik rendering and routing,
> > when those features are finally done...
>
> or as the OSM database grows to full coverage. If you want
> things to scale to larger datasets later on, structure your code
> decisions so it works on the oldest hardware you can find now....
>
that's the reason, why gpsdrive is compilable without the mapnik stuff.
so it should be possible to run on systems with limited resources with a 
reduced feature set; but the full functionality is simply not possible.

I know that commercial navigation systems do full featured navigation in a 
reasonable time on small systems using less space (about 600MB covering 
europe including POIs on my palm) than osm. if you know how they are doing 
this, please tell us... ;-)


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