Re: geoinfo.db

Am Samstag 27 Juni 2009 schrieb Andreas Putzo:
> Hello,
>
> i tried to install gpsdrive 2.10pre7 from source and stumbled about
> the missing geoinfo.db. I figured out that it is either available in the
> minimal-icons.tgz from sourceforge or in Joergs openstreetmap-map-icons
> package.
right, it has been moved into those packages.

> How is this file generated? Is there a script available to generate
> the file from an existing icon directory?
the file is generated with create_geoinfo-db.pl
you can find it in the openstreetmap svn in applications/share/map-
icons/tools/

> Reading the database schema i guess the file is used to display OSM
> waypoints with gpsdrive (mapnik). Is this correct? Does that file have
> any other purpose within gpsdrive?
>
it holds all the poi-type data used for displaying all the points and icons in
gpsdrive. there is also a table, that matches the osm-types with the gpsdrive-
types when importing poi-data from an osm xml-file.
it has nothing to do with mapnik.




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