[OSM-newbies] using programs with source codes

Mark Williams mark.666 at blueyonder.co.uk
Tue Aug 26 23:43:58 BST 2008


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Florian Leiler wrote:
> There are some routing programs (for example pyroute) where you can download the source code.
> I am not used to this because I am a newbie. How can I youse the program on windows for example? Which compiler should I use? Should I download every single file?
> 
> Thanks flo 
> 
> 
Taking your example; You need Python, get it from www.python.org,
obviously the windows set. It's not compiled, it's interpreted just like
Basic.
You download the whole source directory, add some data (xxxx.osm) & read
the README & work out what it does from there :) Possibly the easiest
way (for decent broadband) is to get the whole svn.openstreetmap.org set
& browse around to see what's fun.

Other software will need other programs, gosmore for instance wants
Java, but you may well have that installed anyway.

You tell which compiler from the filename extensions (If you have
Windows set to hide these, change it. Now. Apply that change to all
folders, too..!) because python uses program.py, java usually
program.jar, c++ program.cpp, perl should have some program.perl (but
needn't), visual basic program.vbs, etc...

Mark
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