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Re: [ gpsdrive ] Goole maps projection: msg#00068

linux.gps

Subject: Re: [ gpsdrive ] Goole maps projection

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Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany) schrieb:
> On Tuesday 10 October 2006 19:48, Jannis Achstetter wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 10 October 2006 14:17, David wrote:
>>>> Looking throught the gov.au site I found this page.
>>>> http://www.ga.gov.au/geodesy/datums/aboutdatums.jsp
>>>>
>>>> It talks about the projection system used but they have many different
>>>> styles of images on their site so I'm not sure if it is applicable to
>>>> the ones we are downloading.
>>>>
>>>> It mentions this one a couple of times.
>>>> Universal Transverse Mercator' (UTM)
>>>>
>>>> Again I'm not sure what projections gpsdrive is expecting.
>>>> I tried changing the filenames between map_ and top_ and it didn't make
>>>> any difference that I could see. Is there a different way to specify
>>>> the projection now? I know there was talk about changing this some time
>>>> back.
>>> The top level directory makes an override to this old projection
>> scheme. We
>>
>>> now have 3 Projections implemented in gpsdrive: the old map_ top_ and
>> the new
>>
>>> googlesat projection.
>> We have "googlesat projection" implemented in gpsdrive? Does this
>> mean, we can use Google-Maps-pictures at last?
>
> gpsfetchmap.pl -a 1 -w MyHome --mapserver=googlesat
>


To come back to this old topic (sorry):
This method doesn't work for me. It does load the images from the
server but they are way off the real position.
How do I track if it's a glitch in the fetch-and-download or in the
gpsdrive-part?

Jannis
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