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On Friday 09 January 2009 14:05:40 Guenther Meyer wrote:

> Am Freitag 09 Januar 2009 schrieb Andreas Schneider:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've bought a N810 and I saw some checkins for maemo. What about a garage
> > project for gpsdrive to provide latest gpsdrive packages for the maemo
> > plattform?
>
> I played around a little bit with gpsdrive on maemo.
> the basic stuff is working very well on my emulator, but some things are
> still missing. I didn't try it on the real N810, because that would need
> debian packaging, which is not easy to do...
It wouldn't make fun if it would be easy :) Well dpkg sucks ...

> it seems, that cmake 2.6 can create debian packages, but these are not
> "real" debian packages afair.
>
> a garage project to provide packages would be fine, but the source code
> should stay in the sf svn.

Definitely.

> would you like to maintain such a project?
>

I would try to do this. Have you compiled it with mapnik support?

> > Has someone already looked deeper int embedded mysql?
>
> mysql? why?
> we use sqlite for storage of POI data, which should work fine on maemo.

It looks like that embeddded mysql performs better than sqlite3. amarok
switched from sqlite3 to embedded mysql. I just wondered if someone looked at
it.

How are openstreetmap mapdata stored? I thought a mysql database is needed for
this. Has mapnik it's own format.

Cheers,

        -- andreas

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