[Xastir] Basic Maps for Xastir

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

GRASS is a full-blown GIS system, not a converter.  I don't believe it 
has any knowledge of basic APRSdos maps.  It does use OGR now, though, 
IIRC, so that's something.

Dan Brown wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Jason Winningham wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Is there an easy way to convert shapefiles to APRSdos format?
>>
>>Not that I know of.  What I've mentioned before was that it'd be
>>great to write a module for OGR so that it could understand APRSdos
>>and WinAPRS map formats, then we could convert between all the
>>vector map styles using ogr2ogr.
>>
> 
> 
> Am not sure this is all relevant, but...  here's a couple links I found
> while digging around recently - possible things to add to the README.maps
> file. 
> 
> Tiger 2 APRS converter - looks dated, however: 
> 
> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~alan/ham/aprs/
> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~alan/ham/aprs/tig2aprs.html
> 
> Huge list of GIS tools and such, also has format descriptions: 
> http://www.grime.net/gistools/
> 
> Looks like this may be a good converter, but I've not D/L'ed yet:
> http://grass.baylor.edu//
> 
> I haven't yet determined if there's a good way to go from shapefile to aprs
> though. 
> 
> 
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