[Live-demo] [OSGeo] #1059: gpsdrive's Mapnik doesn't start since stuff changed

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#1059: gpsdrive's Mapnik doesn't start since stuff changed
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 Reporter:  hamish   |       Owner:  live-demo@…                   
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new                           
 Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:  OSGeoLive6.5                  
Component:  LiveDVD  |    Keywords:  gpsdrive, kosmo, postgis2, 6.5
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Comment(by sbcalvo):

 Replying to [comment:9 darkblueb]:
 > I do not understand how or why Kosmo can shift the base system for all
 other apps - I read above that GPSDrive is now (thankfully) resolved.

 It's not only a "Kosmo problem" that shift the base system for all the
 other apps, I did notice it by checking the Kosmo Desktop quickstart and
 warned that the change to PostGIS 2.0 could affect to other applications
 as well.

 As the matter of fact, it does, not only Kosmo Desktop is not able to load
 the PostGIS tables, but also gvSIG and gpsdrive have a similar problem. I
 did some tests and gvSIG complains about the asewk(geometry,unknow)
 function when trying to load a table from natural_earth2 database. Maybe
 they are the unique to fail, but I'm not sure about it.

 The legacy.sql is a solution for the problem that would solve for everyone
 for sure, as it restores all the removed functions. Kosmo Desktop needs
 only the asewkb, extent and geometryfromtext functions to be present at
 the database, legacy_minimal.sql is not enough.

 Of course, I could change Kosmo Desktop to use the new functions (as it
 will do in the next release), but it won't solve the problem for the
 others.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1059#comment:12>
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