[Xastir] making maps

[Wes Johnston]

Ummm.... I think I just partially answered my own question.... the GPSTM
PRO version exports SHP files to arcview.
Wes


Wes Johnston wrote:

>I have a friend in Brazil who has "enhanced" some of the garmin
>mapsource maps by recording his own breadcrumb trails and adding them to
>the gamin maps.  He's using a program called GPS track maker
>http://www.gpstm.com/ that can export to several formats, including
>winaprs maps.  I know xastir can read winaprs maps, but my question is
>more in the direction of aprsworld and findu. 
>
>In the end, my friend wants to have better maps of brazil than are
>presently available on findu or aprsworld, and my suggestion was that if
>he could get his maps to shapelib files that Jim at aprsworld would
>probably include them.    My feeling is that it would be better to
>contact the author of gpstm and get him to add an export to shapelib
>function.
>
>I'm asking this here b/c I believe that there's enough knowlege here to
>tell us if this is the right path to follow, and how to get there. 
>
>Since GPSTM is written for windows, what libraries can I steer it's
>author towards to support convertion to shapelibs?
>
>How can we convert winaprs maps to shapelibs?  Yes I know there will be
>layer issues, but as I recall, winaprs maps do differentiate between
>water, main roads and residential streets.
>
>Will the resulting shapelibs be compatible with aprsworld's mapping engine?
>
>Wes (off on a tangent as usual)
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