[Xastir] Import/Generate Custom Lines?

[Mike Benonis]

Thanks for the suggestions.  I'll look into option two - I really  
don't want the route showing up as on object (I'm going to have enough  
of them between vehicles, rest stops, start/finish, and general noise  
on the map).

By the way, as a more general question to those who have used APRS for  
bike tours/races, does anyone have any tips for a smooth event?

73's

Mike


Best regards,

Mike Benonis
Heritage Theatre Festival Sound Engineer
Elec. Engr. '09, The University of Virginia
mjb8h at virginia.edu
KI4RIX

On Jun 3, 2009, at 00:05, Tom Russo wrote:

> 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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