[pkg-fso-maint] Mumpot in Debian

[Andreas Kemnade]

Hi Joachim,

On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:48:43 +0100
Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Andreas,
> 
> after a suggestion from Mitja Kleider I started to package mumpot for
> Debian. It seems that you are using it directly on the FreeRunner to do
> mapping. Who do you do the various left-/right- and middle-clicks, with
> or without shift and control, on the FreeRunner?
> 
I do not use the right/middle-clicks+shift combinations on the FreeRunner.
On my Ipaq h2200 I was using them using the mouse button rotation applect
for matchbox. There are almost everytime alternatives.

Let's sum up:

shift+right mouse button: moving around the map, also possible with the scrollbars
     and now also using the hand in the toolbar.
shift+lmb: routing stuff: also possible with the toolbar on the right side.
      (by switching to route menu)
rmb, mmb without shift for route drawing: not possible in 0.3.1.
       in current git there are already other possibilties: move your
       finger from right to left on the touchscreen. 
       moving from bottom to top deletes the current route.

> And BTW, for Debian, having manpages for all files installed to /usr/bin
> would be highly appreciated. Do you plan to include these?
> 
I have never written manpages before. But I guess as a starting
point looking at other manpages might be a good idea. And
then I remember one of my first steps on a debian system in 1998(?) was 
downloading
groff and doing groff -mmandoc -Tascii on the manpages to display them.
So I guess groff should also be a piece to look at.
It is really time doing that *now*.
Here is a short description of the additional stuff what is included in /usr/bin so that you
can decide what to do about that:

osm2places:

Usage: osm2places bigosmfile.osm >~/.mumpot/places.txt
extracts place names from big osm files ao that they
can be used by mumpot to search places.

The following tools are only there because they share code with mumpot. They are
not needed for operation of mumpot. I'm thinking about marking them as noinst 
in future versions.

get_maprect:
Usage: get_maprect [-x xoffset] [-y yoffset] [-w width] [-h height] [-c configfile] [-p] [-n nmeafile] [-z] filename coords

Extracts one rectangle from the tile cache.
coords are the geographical coordinates in the form like "49°22'33''N 7"11'44''E""
-x/-y/-w/-h specify the area around the coords to extract
-p turns on eps output
-c gives the name of a configfile for mumpot (like /usr/bin/mumpot-tah)
-n gives an nmea track which is drawn on top of the map in eps mode
-z draws an arrow to the placed specified by coords

simplify-gps;

Usage: simplify-gps [-p mindist] [-n negnodenum] [-o] nmea-files ...
simplifies the nmea data so that the resulting trace does not differ more than
mindist arc seconds from the original. If the -o switch is given, the trace is
converted to an osm way, with node numbers starting by -1 or if specified by negnodenum.

download_osm:

Usage: download_osm nmea-file marginsec
downloads osm data around the nmea trace with an additional margin of marginsec
arc seconds.

Greetings
Andreas
PS: According to your homepage, you live in Karlsruhe. I'm there next
weekend to meet a good friend so that is a chance to meet in real live
and exchange pgp keys for example and clarify other stuff.
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