[ gpsdrive ] Compile Error

[Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Tettnang/Germany)]

On Montag 19 Januar 2009, Alex Cruz wrote:
> On Saturday 17 January 2009, info at 4x4falcon.com wrote:
> > Fix on the installing wiki page under troubleshooting.
> >
> > Just did this on a machine myself.
>
>  Unfortunately, I had already performed all of those steps and still no
> rendering. The weird thing is that the background was completely white as
> opposed to that pastel blue that I've seen happen that the troubleshooting
> describes.
>
>  So, I decided to try gpsdrive under Kubuntu 8.10 and poof! the maps are
> rendering as expected with mapnik. I've tried this now several times and
> the results are the same. Both of these were clean installs. So I'm going
> to try compiling under Ubuntu 8.04 instead of Kubuntu and see if I get the
> same results.
>
>  Now on to a few questions. When I compile from svn and start up gpsdrive,
> I get those annoying "###WARNING: Failed to load image
> file '/usr/local/share/icons/map-icons/rendering/blah.png' errors due to
> that directory not existing. How can I fix this? Also, is there a way for
> the SSID's to show up in the map rendering nest to the icons? I'm pretty
> sure that they used to show up with my previous installation under Gentoo.
> Thoughts?

Yuu need to install the map-icons from the osm-svn. For a  long time I only 
tried it with the debian packages ....
The icons can be found at:
	svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/share/map-icons


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Jörg (Germany, Tettnang)

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