[ gpsdrive ] gpsdrive & openstreetmap howto

[carlo mecozzi]

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On Samstag 26 Januar 2008, carlo mecozzi wrote:
>/ finally  I was happily able to download  and watch openstreetmap maps
/>/ of europe on one installation(ubuntu gnome). thanks to all of you that
/>/ patiently helped this newbie.
 
/Joerg Ostertag wrote:

> On Samstag 26 Januar 2008, carlo mecozzi wrote:
> >/ finally  I was happily able to download  and watch openstreetmap maps
> />/ of europe on one installation(ubuntu gnome). thanks to all of you that
> />/ patiently helped this newbie. 
> /
> It would be great if you could summarize the help you got. So the next newbie 
> will have less trouble installing mapnik. We can then add this to the FAQ.
>
> >/ hoping that in future I will be able to 
> />/ contribute developing something FREE. (I will now start fighting with
> />/ other installation postgres problem)
> /
> Just ask here if you think we can help there too.
>
> -- 
>
> Jörg (Germany, Munich)
>
> http://www.ostertag.name/
> Tel.: +49 89 420950304
> Skype: JoergOstertag


>/ hoping that in future I will be able to 
/>/ contribute developing something FREE. (I will now start fighting with
/>/ other installation postgres problem)
/
Just ask here if you think we can help there too.

-- 

Jörg (Germany, Munich)

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as far as I read, 
the wiki was not so helpful.
the wiki compiler is certainly an expert, while I am not,so many steps were considered obvious, while they are not for non experts. this I noticed is a matters that still affects a large part of linux world. 
I have got looking for unmentioned  dependencies and I noticed that in a few days gpsdrive updated avoiding many of these difficulties.
but something still remains. for instance, I installed postgresql and postgis, but not postgres-8.2-postgis, and it didn't work.
so I think they  will soon
become dependencies installing mapnik.
I guess that in a very short time everithing will be very easy thank to the work of all of you.
but it was not for me and maybe some others.

thanks
carlo