[ gpsdrive ] noaa charts 11466_1

[Hamish]

Chris wrote:
> Boy a flood of information tonight. This raises an interesting question
> I was pondering earlier this evening. Map folders can be anywhere
> on the file system provided the correct naming convention is adhered
> too. 
> 
> see man gpsdrive subsection maps.
> 
> What I've noticed is that the file structure under .gpsdrive/ is getting 
> rather cluttered. Was wondering what people do to organize their file 
> structures ie: recommended best practices, for large data sets. With NOAA
> maps/tiles as well with other data sets the structures will get rather
> large and complex. 

I'd suggest putting them in ~/.gpsdrive/maps/noaa/11466_top/*.png  etc.
It just takes a minute with vi/sed/nedit regex to fix the
map_koord_draft.txt file for the dirname before adding it into the master
map_koord.txt file.

> The same applies of course to waypoints, routes and tracks.

true, but due to the need for tiling, the map dirs will need to hold many
more files per entity than wpt/rte/trk.


Hamish