[Xastir] question on "injecting" data into xastir

[James Washer]

I have access to quite a bit of local whether information and road information here in northern Nevada ( where there's not bandwidth problems on APRS (yet))

I'd like to "inject" this data into the APRS system, but I'm not sure how. I can figure out how to make the data look like whether station reports (using perl) but can I "send" it to xastir, or have xastir read from a socket?

Hmm, as I'm writing this, I suspect that is the answer, just write a little server in perl and setup an xastir interface to read it.

Is that the best plan? Is there a better way? Any caveats?

thanks

 - jim