[ gpsdrive ] gpsdrive & openstreetmap howto

[Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany)]

On Mittwoch 30 Januar 2008, carlo mecozzi wrote:
> Thank you very much!
> I extremely  appreciate your words. in this very skilled world , is nice
> to feel useful without any special skill.
> Yesterday I installed Gpsdrive on ubuntu 8.04 alpha 3, and I felt my
> howto became old in only one  day!!
> Everything was very smooth, no more necessary to download
> libboost-python 1.33.1 nor python-mapnik 0.4.0-2 : all dependencies come
> with gpsdrive installation, except for postgresql, postgis and
> posgresql-8.2-postgis. I had a message in terminal during the
> installation of postgresql-8.2-postgis because default postgersql
> package install latest version 8.3.
> the rest was just looking for packages in synaptic and mark them.
> so it was quite a miracle: what I nedeed on monday happened on tuesday.
> Great !
>
> by the way: is it possible to download somewhere openstreetmap file for
> Italy alone? my old laptop won't swallow whole europe file, it blocks
> after " processing nodes 18350 ". how big is the decompressed file?

I think Europ was 4GB last time i checked ....

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