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

[Hamish]

Joerg Ostertag wrote:
> 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.

for mosaicing there is  pnmcat from NetPBM tools or gdal_merge.py from
GDAL.  (create rows with `pnmcat -lr`, then final image with
`pnmcat -tb` [5x4])


Hamish



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