tomcat and eclipse

For the fourth time I have struggled with getting eclipse and tomcat to play along on Ubuntu.

Some tricks:

• install JST containters from WTP updates to get Tomcat server configurations in the server runtimes panel of WTP. Alledgedly it has to be from http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/updates and no other site.
• make sure in /usr/share/tomcat6 you symlink conf to a valid tomcat6 configuration dir. I have it like this "sudo ln -s /var/lib/tomcat6/conf conf", it ends up pointing at /etc/tomcat6/ anyways.
• make sure your project has the Dynamic Web Module Facet installed.
  
• make sure you have webContent/WEB-INF/web.xml pointing at a config of your preference.
• have lots of Zen. Next ubuntu/eclipse update will break everything. Start with fixing your nvidia xorg.conf. Erm, no install the drivers somehow first. No, not from apt, from envy or something or.... grr. Whatever. I got linux coz I wanted to be able to freely muck around with my system. Mucking around I get tons of.
  

Geotagging tools

Like all things linux, it takes some searching and fiddling around. But there are amazing geotagging tools around. I use

• gpsbabel to convert NMEA files to gpx (or any format apparantly)
• exiftool -geotag=FILE pictures exiftool correlate time between the NMEA or gpx or whatever file and geotag the photos.
• GPSDings is a java library that can create kmz files with pictures placed on the map. I'm currently trying to figure out how I used GPSDings googlemaps last time.

Some command lines

exiftool -geotag=/home/fraco/NMEA.log /boellieslug/fotos/20100221_1*

gpsbabel -i NMEA -o gpx,gpxver=1.1 /boellieslug/fotos/20100221_WandelingLaHulpeNMEA.log /boellieslug/fotos/20100221_WandelingLaHulpeNMEA.gpx

java -jar gpsdings.jar exifloc -g /boellieslug/fotos/20100*.gpx -z /boellieslug/fotos/20100212_LaHulpe.kmz -i 1024 800 -y /tmp /boellieslug/fotos/20100221*Hulpen*.jpg