[ gpsdrive ] rc ping

[Joerg Ostertag]

On Friday 12 June 2009, Guenther Meyer wrote:
> Am Freitag 12 Juni 2009 schrieb Hamish:
> > Guenther:
> > > > afaik it is used for the offline maps generation from
> > > > the mapnik database.
> >
> > Joerg:
> > > Or ...... let me think about it; maybe it would be possible
> > > to move it to the *-utils packages ...
> >
> > if it does as Guenther says, that would seem like the appropriate
> > place for it. by "offline maps generation" do you mean no gpsdrive
> > running as well as no internet hookup? (ie morning prep work on laptop
> > harddrive while on the road in new territory)
>
> there's a python script called something like mapnik-gentiles.py that can
> render the mapnik tiles from the osm postgis database.
> the created tiles would take a lot of disk space, but then you don't have
> to use the mapnik live rendering while running gpsdrive...

I moved the perl and python stuff to the utils package. But since the 
gpsdrive-utils package is build out of the gpsdrive-main directory the 
build-dependency has to be kept for python.
 
Joerg