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

[Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany)]

On Dienstag 01 Januar 2008, Gernot Hillier wrote:
> 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=10
>24&format=png

OK then it should be a pice of cace to include it into gpsdrive and/or 
gpsfetchmap.

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Joerg