schrieb stan:
> > I have an older version of gpsdrive on my zaurus, bit
> > slow but it works ok.
> > It's feeble little ARM processor doesn't know what to do
> > with floating point operations, all the new smartphones and
> > pda type things coming out that can run linux and use similar
> > processors would benefit from gpsdrive but I don't know if
> > there are any plans for an ARM port. With all the extra
> > stuff that has gone into mapnik and the osm data this
> > might not even be possible but I'm trying to keep it in
> > mind just in case.
Guenther:
> gpsdrive without the mapnik/postgis stuff should work on
> almost any device, I guess. but someone has to do the port...
[naively asks] how about the ARM package here:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/gpsdrive
> our hope is, that those mobile devices have enough resources
> to run gpsdrive with fullfeatured mapnik rendering and routing,
> when those features are finally done...
or as the OSM database grows to full coverage. If you want
things to scale to larger datasets later on, structure your code
decisions so it works on the oldest hardware you can find now....
"Only 8GB given today's prices" still sucks if my miniITX linux
nav system is running with a 16GB compact flash card + CF<->IDE
converter as the only hard drive.
Hamish
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