[ gpsdrive ] gpsdrive & openstreetmap howto

[Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany)]

On Dienstag 29 Januar 2008, carlo mecozzi wrote:
> as far as I read,
> the wiki was not so helpful.

I personally see the svn-sourcetree as the main source for persistent 
information about the project. This should state for Beginners- and 
Newbies-Info as well as for advanced experts. This is the reason, why we need 
READMEs and HOWTOs for the different Platforms and different skill levels. 

> 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 is the reason why your input is really really helpfull to us. You do have 
another point of view to all the stuff. So you are the one who can tell us 
which are the steps we will have to describe for someone starting with these 
things (which might seem obvious for the expirienced users). If they would 
sound too trivial to me I would start a new README.newbie. But for now they 
sounded usefull for the average user and that's what we need.

> this I noticed is a 
> matters that still affects a large part of linux world. 

Well, we can improve this if the maintainer get more input like your to add to 
FAQ, README, ...

> I have got looking 
> for unmentioned  dependencies and I noticed that in a few days gpsdrive
> updated avoiding many of these difficulties. 

If you find more dependencies not mentioned in the package or documentation, 
please tell us.

> 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.

This will probably have to be a dependency for mapnik. I just sent Artem 
(Maintainer of Mapnik) a short note about this. 

> I guess that in a very short time everithing will be very easy thank to the
> work of all of you. 

But this is only possible, because you helped us to see where problems outside 
our developer island can be seen.  

> but it was not for me and maybe some others. 

So a great thanks to you and I would really love to see more constructive 
comments and HOWTOs like yours.

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Jörg (Germany, Munich)

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