[ gpsdrive ] automatic download of OpenStreetmap *pixel maps*?

[Gernot Hillier]

Hi!

Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany) schrieb:
>> If not, I'd like trying to contribute one - preferrably directly via the
>> GUI in the same dialog which does Expedia (?) downloads (at least in
>> 2.10pre4). Does this make sense for you?
> 
> Would be nice. You probably wand to expand gpsfetchmap.pl. But there is one 
> slight challenge.... the tiles comming from tiles at home or 
> tiles.openstreetmap.org are 256x256 pixel and you'll have to combine them to 
> get a 1280x1024 Pixel image. But there should be code inside gpsfetchmap to 
> do this. The stiching formerly was also done for google-maps. So you can 
> probably have a look in this old code. If you don't find it in the current 
> svn you might want to have a look into the source before 2.10pre4.

No, it's much easier. T at H already does this for you:
http://tah.openstreetmap.org/MapOf/?lat=48.5333&long=12.15&z=14&w=1280&h=1024&format=png

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Gernot