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[Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Tettnang/Germany)]

On Dienstag 13 Januar 2009, Hamish wrote:
> Joerg wrote:
> > does someone have the time to adapt the cmake script to allig gda2
> > as well?
>
> I tried that, but it didn't work. My determination at the time (Sept 24)
> was that GDA2 would not work without rewriting the C code due to API
> changes, etc.
>
> > This way i hope we will be able to compile GpsDrive for debian etch too.
>
> I have compiled GpsDrive & created a .deb for Etch without Mapnik support.
>   http://hamish.bowman.googlepages.com/gpsdrivefiles#etch

Do you think there is a possibility to integrate this into the default package 
and only get it triggered if we compile on debian etch?

> The package there is SVN from ~1 month ago (pre-libgps?), I have made a
> new SVN .deb for Etch as recently as yesterday, but not uploaded it yet.
>
> IIRC you need newer Mapnik/OSM packages than are available for Etch, so
> would need to backport those as well to get GpsDrive+Mapnik on Etch. OSM
> is poorly covered where I live, so I haven't bothered with that.

So we should all come over and visit you to improve OSM-Coverage ;-)

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Jörg (Germany, Tettnang)

http://www.ostertag.name/