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

[Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany)]

On Montag 07 Januar 2008, Kim Hawtin wrote:

...

> I've been organising with some of the OSM folks to do a demo of OSM and
> related tech at Linux.Conf.Au happening later this month in melbourne.

Showing live rendering of mapnik data inside gpsdrive is probably the most 
important stuff. This is not prefetching the tiles, but using the mapnik Mode 
for rendering.
Besides there are the new POI System wit all the icons and the new 
Userinterface specially designed for CarPCs 
	gpsdrive -M car


> I was wondering if the OSM map download stuff is in a release version of
> gpsdrive?

Yes; mapnik-osm-updater.sh and the new gpsfetchmap.pl will be in the release. 
So you can use both modes live-rendering and prefetched-tiles in the 
upcomming 2.10final.
For the debian packages you will (probably) find the mapnik download and 
install stuff in the package openstreetmap-utils.

I don't know if any of those will make it to the release, but we started a 
windows Compile and we already compiled gpsdrive for OpenMoko...

> Also if there is interest we can do a BoF or similar.

??

> Please contact me if theres any other things you'd like demo'd or
> announced...

If you announce and show OSM that's the best I can wish for!!
Simply good luck and have fun  with all the people there.

-- 

Jörg (Germany, Munich)

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