[Live-demo] osgeo-live version 4.0alpha6 available for download

[Alex Mandel]

On 07/04/2010 11:44 AM, Dane Springmeyer wrote:
> 
> On Jul 3, 2010, at 11:09 PM, Hamish wrote:
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>> if possible setting up the PostGIS DB in a way
>> compatible with Ross Scanlon's instructions here:
>>  https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/gpsdrive/index.php?title=Setting_up_Mapnik
>>
> 
> I've never used GPSDrive, but I would caution against that wiki. I just skimmed it and it looks quite old. For example, it references very out of data urls to download shapefiles used for the osm stylesheets. 
> 
> Both the OSM styles and osm2pgsql are not on a release cycle, so they need to be paired in time. The easiest way to do this is grab them both from latest osm SVN.
> 
> But, for the osgeo-live DVD we could consider pulling from a specific revision number to keep things simple. Just last week a few more shapefiles were added as dependencies (from natural earth) for the osm styles, so I can help get this right.
> 
> Given that (and I was just looking into this before finding this thread), would it be possible to install osm2pgsql from source on osgeo-live rather than from apt packages?  osm2pgsql takes ./autogen && ./configure && make, but compiles in just a few seconds.
>
Yes, if you would like to add an alternate method and test that is
acceptable. The preference is for deb, but we understand if that doesn't
work quite right. Keep in mind that if a user then goes home they are
more likely to grab the deb. A more up to date deb in ubuntugis would be
the best solution and if the package does compile that easy maybe that
route would work.

> 
>> so that the resulting OSM DB can be accessed live from within GpsDrive &
>> then we can drop the pre-rendered sample data for that. (was 73mb for
>> Sydney)
>>
> 
> That makes good sense. Let me know how I can help.
> 
>> also AFAIK osm2gpsql is smart enough to read planet.osm.bz2 files directly,
>> no need to unbzip them first.
>>
> 
> Yes, it is.
> 

The unbzip is so that QGIS can read the osm files (I'll have to check if
it can handle .bz2 files)

Thanks,
Alex