[ gpsdrive ] SVN Deb package

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Thu, 2009-01-08 22:32:27 +1100, David Bannon <D.Bannon at vpac.org> wrote:
> 
> Ah, makes sense ! But I still get a mapnik error when starting
> gpsdrive. 
> ---------------
> Read 577 POI-Types from geoinfo.db
> Cannot init mapnik. Mapnik support DISABLED: PSQL error:
> FATAL:  Ident authentication failed for user "dbannon" in layer
> 'leisure'
> 
> Line not recognized
> ----------------
> 
> Does this mean I need to be running postgress to use mapnik ? Yep, looks
> like thats the case, I just found  R K Scanlon's page on the wiki, will
> have a play !

Mapnik can use several different data sources, but I guess most
widely, PostGIS is used, primarily with OpenStreetMap data converted
via osm2pgsql. This is, too, what the XML file (describing the map's
look) is written for.

MfG, JBG

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      Jan-Benedict Glaw      jbglaw at lug-owl.de              +49-172-7608481
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