[Xastir] Import/Generate Custom Lines?

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 09:31:29PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <mjb8h at virginia.edu> flavor, containing:
> Please forgive me if this question has come up before; I just  
> subscribed to this list-serv.  A quick search of the archives did not  
> turn anything up.
> 
> I have a list of lat/lon values that constitute a bike route (in KML  
> format, but I can pull out the coordinates if needed).  I would like  
> to find a way to turn these values into a format that Xastir  
> recognizes so that I can display them on top of the tiger maps I am  
> currently using.  Is this possible, and if so, where would I look for  
> information on how to do this?

This just came up in the last week or two, when a subscriber was trying to
do much the same thing.

There are multiple options.  Here's a couple:

- Create a list of APRS object-syntax lines for the points in your bike route
   (Keith K prefers this method)
- Use a tool to convert the KML to a shapefile (ogr2ogr from the GDAL suite
   can do this, as can GPSBabel) and then create a DBFAWK file to tell Xastir 
   how to render it.

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