[ gpsdrive ] Upgrading Hardy Heron

[Charles Curley]

I just upgraded my laptop and desktop from Ubuntu 7.10 (and the
versions of gpsdrive that came with that), and to 8.04. I found that
gpsdrive was also upgraded in the process, to
gpsdrive-2.10~pre4-1--i386.

The major problem is that I don't see my waypoints. The database and
table are still there, but gpsdrive doesn't see them. They are in the
old schema, and no update was done on that as part of the upgrade.

In /usr/share/doc/gpsdrive several files of dubious usefulness
reside. One, README.SQL.gz, says:

    If you already have the database and you update GpsDrive, make
    sure your table structure is updated with the above geoinfo.pl
    script.

There is no geoinfo.pl script. How do I get that? Or is that still the
preferred way to update my waypoints?

A few nitpicks. Some of these may be packaging issues, in which case
I should probably enter them in Ubuntu's bug tracker.

* It is possible to specify the altitude in various units;
  unfortunately changing from meters to feet is not persistent. The
  next time I run the program I get meters again.

* I can turn auto-best-map off. The scale selectors then work. But
  when I then turn auto-best-map back on, the map stays the same; I
  don't get the largest scale map. Also, the shift-mouse buttons and +
  and - keys don't work. Other keys such as the x and g keys work.

* Any chance we can Americanize the waypoints, such as using a dollar
  sign rather than a euro sign, and entering American banks instead of
  German?

* Tool tips show up but don't stay up very long.

* I don't seem to have my NASA maps; how do I get those back?

* gpsfetchmap.pl and gpsreplay.pl appear to be missing. And probably
  other scripts as well.

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