On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 11:35 +0200, Stéphane Urbanovski wrote: > Jeff Garrett a écrit : > > Hello to All! > > Hello > Thanks for working on this project again
Hi [snip snip] > There is a tipo in main.c (passworDD): > main.c: db_passwd = g_key_file_get_string(keyfile, "mysql", > "passwordd", NULL); Thanks for the catch. Fix committed to cvs. > > If you skip this step, or if you don't specify all of the parameters, > > roadster will use the defaults (local host, local user, no password, no > > database name). > > > > Now you'll need to import mapping data. To do that you'll need to find > > out your county FIPS code, and download a file from the Census Bureau > > website (#12319). The roadster wiki has links to a list of FIPS codes > > as well as to the CB website. You can start roadster, go to Debug > > > Import Map Data... and select the ZIP file from the Census Bureau. > > > > Now you are ready to begin! Go to the search box in the upper right, > > put in a street name, and press enter (#12323). > > The search box seems to work, but I'm not able to see anything on the map > (stay blank) It returns results? What happens when you click on them? Any amount of zooming help? > > - Printing (#12352) > > Export a "screenshot" ? Yea, something like that. Since the map is a cairo surface, and since cairo was made with printing in mind, it should be fairly easy to export it to other cairo_surface types (e.g. images -- #12371) or print them... > > > - Database abstraction / other databases > > There are places in the code that have explicit database queries > > and which are not very database independent. Obviously, most of > > the database stuff should be moved away from the rest of the code, > > so as to make it fairly easy to change (#12344). > > I think database initialisation should be left out the main program and put > in an external script. > > > An SQLite database backend would be nice and have zero > > configuration (#12321). It'd also make it easy to prepackage > > the TIGER data (#12345). > > > > Some people would probably appreciate postgres/postgis support but > > I don't think that's an immediate concern (#12346). > > Postgis has interessant capabilities like road simplification. > > > > - OpenStreetMap support (#12348) > > We should be able to read their data, and serve as an OSM editor. > > They currently use JOSM, a specialized Java app, but we could also > > do this. It would give us more data too... Note that the OSM > > data includes the one-way street data. > > +1 ! -Jeff _______________________________________________ roadster mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/roadster
