Re: geoinfo.db

Am Donnerstag 02 Juli 2009 schrieb Hamish:
> for my 2c, I would vote for the base .tgz package to be self-complete.
>
> i.e. a truly minimal symbol set of simple +,x,.,o,*,box,diamond rendered
> as vector graphics, not raster. (eg WLAN symbol et al from 2.09's way.txt)
> and a simple (empty?) geoinfo.db to match that.
>
having only a minimal set of icons is fine.
but I would always provide the full version of geoinfo.db, otherwise we will
have several different versions flying around which will just cause confusion.
as I already mentioned, it's no problem for gpsdrive if icons are referenced,
that are no there...

> it is not unexpected to ask users to install widely available libgtk2
> and zlib, and have cmake complain if they are not there, but requiring a
> second .tgz for geoinfo.db seems a bit of an unexpected imposition,
> especially when those not using OSM will use none of those icons.
> (probably gpsd is a better example of a distinct run-time dep)
>
Although we tried to match the types to osm to use osm poi-data inside
gpsdrive, it's not the only purpose.
gpsdrive always had POIs (or waypoints) displayed with icons, you can use them
without having any kind of osm data on your system.
geoinfo.db is a part of gpsdrive, it's no "osm import".

> I have no problem with small dependent .deb's, that is another matter.
> (e.g. no one complains about friendsd.deb)  Just the omnibus.tgz.
>
friendsd is not a dependency, gpsdrive runs fine without it.

> also IHMO POI icons should be SVG not rasterized, but I would let the
> OSM and Mapnik projects worry about that :)
>
afaik all the icons in gpsdrive have always been raster images. they were
easier to handle, too. but I agree, that svg icons would be better.
most of the icons have their origin in gpsdrive; we provided them to osm to
use them. and nice to see, that people do it...







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