Okay,
lets go with sqlite.
Any thoughts on how we should handle spatial data?
We could mod sqlite to support a spatial index.
We could setup external spatial indexes that ties a features bounding
rectangle to a unique ID which is contained in the sqlite database.
We could use a sort of bastardized spatial method in which a tree is
described in an sqlite table with columns like the following:
TileID ParentTile MinLat MinLon MaxLat MaxLon
The Lats and Lons describe the rectangle, If a Tile is contained
completely within another Tile, it references a ParentTile.
We could setup bounding rectangles by city, county, zipcode, or other
geographic location if wanted.
Ian McIntosh wrote:
Hi Forrest,
I agree that it's too hard to get Roadster working. I think a
combination of removing features/dependencies and some build-file magic
would help make things easier. Also moving to sqlite would be a big
help.
To aid in communication, what do you think about starting up an IRC
channel for Roadster?
For now I invite you all to join/idle in:
#roadster on irc.freenode.net
We'll start with making it easier to build Roadster, and move from
there.
-Ian
On mar, 2006-07-18 at 22:43 -0400, Forrest Loomis wrote:
Well, I first want to say: Roadster looks amazing! It is the
absolute most attractive gps program that is avaiable for linux --
free or not.
However, I say that purely from the screenshots, as I am completely
incapable of getting it to run. I can compile it with the gmemchunk
to slice patch posted to the mailing list last month, but the GUI is
unresponsive.
Anyways, I have some time on my hand and would like to help out with
development of roadster.
Where to start?
I heard recently that there is some desire for roadster to be broken
up into a backend library -- libroadster? and from there making it
easy to make a front end in any high level language one would desire.
So... where should I focus my efforts?
Also have any thoughts been given to try and rally developers to the
project? Maybe a wiki, where people could show how to get what is
currently done working, and what is currently being worked on and by
whom. It seems to work for other projects, maybe roadster could get
some help from it?
Anyways, I would like to see this project take off, or at least get to
a usable state. It looks amazing in the screenshots, I guess its just
broken now?
I look forward to hearing from some subscribers.
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