[ gpsdrive ] Nautical maps

[Joerg Ostertag]

Am Samstag, 1. März 2008 02:53:25 schrieb Hamish:

>
> The www.gpsdrive.de webpage says "GpsDrive - Navigation Software for
> Linux". It may be more appropriate to call that "for UNIX" or "for
> Linux and Mac". GpsDrive runs well on a Mac (I've built using Fink), it
> seems a pity not to include all those users.

You're right. Please change it in svn and I'll upload it to the website. 



> > So if the people who know this stuff, or have figured it out could
> > write a howtoo ....
>
> I had put some hints into the old GpsDrive MediaWiki, but that has gone
> away. You might still be able to find the content via archive.org.
> I am happy to host something on my google pages webspace, but it would
> be nice to revive the wiki so everyone can contribute ideas. For
> solutions using d.out.gpsdrive we could use GRASS's wiki.

If you still have the HOWTOs, please add them as a README to the Documentation 
directory.


> > I has hoped by now someone had interfaced the free distribution from
> > NOAA, but so far I haven't found it.
>
> try above. Both GDAL and GRASS (>=6.3) are fully scriptable so
> something
> could easily be done to automate tile creation.

If the maps are license compatible another way could be to add another 
mapserver to gpsfetchmap. You normally should only have a look at the other 
download methods and from this you normally can add most new ones.

> I see no reason why the S-57 vector data could not be integrated into
> GpsDrive in the same way OpenStreetMap has been. (NOAA products are
> without copyright)

Is there a chance (speaking of license) to import these vector Data into 
openstreetmap. This would even increase the benefit....

-- 

Joerg