Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany) wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 May 2007 21:50, Thomas Schönhütl wrote:
>
>> Oliver Schinagl wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> first off, very nice product. I'm likeing it so far.
>>>
>>> The only thing of course is, it doesn't come with any maps. Now I don't
>>> mind downloading them, even by hand, but here's where my question comes
>>> in. Two in fact, the easy one first:
>>>
>>> expedia is currently the only functional way of downloading maps,
>>> mapblast doesn't work (the -m option is 'doubly used' anyway). Maybe
>>> google maps would be a nice extension to this?
>>>
>> Here you can find a possibility to download google-maps. It works quite
>> good for me. To prevent problems with overlapping cards choose a
>> overlapping area of more than 10%.
>>
>> google-maps <http://gtm.tel.uva.es/ztep/maps/dmap.htm>
>>
>
> Is there a dfference to the svn gpsfetchmap.pl which would offer the
> following
> types of download?
>
> gpsfetchmap.pl --help
> ...
> --mapserver <MAPSERVER>
> Mapserver to download from. Default: 'expedia'. Currently can
> use: landsat or expedia.
>
> geoscience, gov_au, incrementp, googlesat and eniro have
> download stubs, but they are !!!NOT!!!! in the right scale.
>
> geoscience
>
> landsat covers the whole world with satelite Photos
>
> gov_au is for Australia
>
> incrementp for japanese Maps
>
> googlesat: Google Satelite Maps
>
> expedia
>
> eniro covers: eniro_se Sweden eniro_dk Denmark eniro_no Norway
> eniro_fi Finnland
>
> Overview of Area covered by eniro_fi:
> http://maps.eniro.com/servlets/fi_MapImageLocator?profile=Main&c
> enter=26.;62.&zoomlevel=1&size=800x600
>
>
>
Hello again,
here a screenshot of gpsdrive with googlemaps:
screenshot
<http://home.arcor.de/pilleus.pulcher.dsl/bilder/gpsdrive-googlemaps.jpg>
Thomas Schönhütl.
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