Google Maps Instructions Outdated?

[John Williams-3]

Hi,

I've been using GpsDrive for a while (a couple of years) now, using maps downloaded from Google Maps following the instructions on the GpsDrive wiki:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/gpsdrive/index.php?title=Creating_maps

and using the site it refers to:

http://gtm.tel.uva.es/ztep/maps/dmap.htm

It all seems to work well, except that something seems to have changed since the last time I downloaded some maps in 2008.  Using the latest development version of GpsDrive on Ubuntu (Jaunty) the maps that I downloaded a few days ago do not seem to be recognised by GpsDrive. 

I have some clue as to why.  The previous version complained about too many digits (or something) in the map_koord.txt file, but the current version does not.  I've included a sample of my file in case someone can spot something obviously wrong.  The maps in the nz/ directory work fine, those in the si12 do not.

Any other suggestions?  Have others been using that web site with no problems recently?

Thanks in advance,

John


Sample of map_koord.txt:

nz/map_080200.gif -43.56447159 169.51354980 1205937
nz/map_080201.gif -43.56447159 176.19323730 1205937
nz/map_080300.gif -47.31275872 169.51354980 1125880
nz/map_080301.gif -47.31275872 176.19323730 1125880
si12/map_0000.gif -40.63349613 166.21971130 81567
si12/map_0001.gif -40.63349613 166.63719177 81567
si12/map_0002.gif -40.63349613 167.05467224 81567


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[hamish_b]

John,

for NZ maps I strongly suggest to install Mapnik support as per the
instructions on the GpsDrive wiki. You can get an enhanced OpenStreetMap
data file containing all the NZOGPS+LINZ data from the NZOGPS google groups
mailing list. (sorry I don't have the exact link on hand, you have to
download .osm files per regional council from a OSM devel server then
add it to the PostGIS db with the append flag)

the results are no less than spectacular.

I tried that site about 1 month ago (and cleaned up those instructions
while I was at it), ISTR it worked but I didn't test much at all.
Maybe my edits broke something?


regards,
Hamish



     
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