[ gpsdrive ] New Version gpsdrive-2.10pre5 is online

[Andreas Putzo]

On Jul 10  06:51, Chris H wrote:
> On Thursday 10 July 2008 03:30:14 Guenther Meyer wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag 10 Juli 2008 schrieb Chris H:
> > > I was wondering, is it possible to separate out the mapnik dependencies
> > > for those of us who done use it and also for those like myself who would
> > > love to use it on an EEEPC. I suppose the options are present are to drop
> > > back to previous versions.
> >
> > it is possible, to compile without mapnik support.
> > maybe we should provide a binary package (gpsdrive_lite ?) for this version
> > also...
> 
> The other option would be to provide detailed notes on how to build it without 
> mapnik support for the uninitiated. More advanced users could then provide 
> the packages as usual as long as its officially supported or approved. This 
> would go a long way to support gpsdrive on smaller SDD units which are all 
> the rage right now. Thanks for considering it. 
> 
> The other issue is however, on smaller SDD based units there are many who 
> would want to use mapnick support. The challenge then becomes to strip out 
> unneeded features and make it as small as possible. I guess it all depends on 
> what hardware you want to support officially. I don't know the application 
> well enough at this point to know its full footprint once installed, but the 
> world map boundaries file I had to download to get it working (deb) on my 
> workstation was over 450megs alone. 

What i would like to do is disabling the world_boundaries by default or
only use them if they are found.
Current mapnik versions support xml parsers that support DTDs so that we
can cleanup the osm.xml file a bit and include other files, like
world_boundaries.xml.

regards,
andreas