[ gpsdrive ] [gpsdrive] A lovely shade of pastel blue

[Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany)]

On Dienstag 08 Januar 2008, haylocki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany) wrote:
> > This sounds like a wrong osm.xml can you try latest HEAD from svn. This
> > error
> > should be fixed there.
>
> I deleted all the copy's of osm.xml from my pc
> then I did a svn checkout, and
>
>  ./build_make.sh --prefix=/usr/local --build Release

Have you done a make install ?

After this you should have a copy of osm.xml in /usr/local/......


> this gives me an osm.xml file in :
>
> /home/ian/.gpsdrive/osm.xml
>
> and
>
> /home/ian/svn.gpsdrive.org/build/scripts/mapnik/osm.xml
>
> Still no road names :-(
>
> I have discovered that the roads are only displayed if I run gpsdrive from
> the build directory, i.e. :
>
> cd /home/ian/svn.gpsdrive.org/build
> gpsdrive
>
> Don't know if this is related to the road name problem.

Yes, it is, because if gpsdrive doesn't find the file installed it searches in 
the build structure. This is for being able to test gpsdrive without the need 
of installing it.


> P.S.
>
> I was hoping that as the maps were drawn on the fly, that it would be
> possible for them to be rotated to match the direction of travel. But I
> believe that mapnik does not have a function to rotate the data before
> rendering the map. Is this correct ?

Not that I know of yet.

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Jörg (Germany, Munich)

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