[Xastir] Import/Generate Custom Lines?

[Keith Kaiser]

Mike,

I do prefer each point on the route be clickable so information like  
it's address can be displayed. Many bike routes are out in the sticks  
and seldom do I know the area, so this helps me a lot when I need it.  
Also as an object point you will always know how far you are from that  
location if you have distances shown, but as a map item you will not.  
Of course my experience in the last bike route was as a rover/sag if  
you are running the net your needs may be different.

As to running a good bike show... wow that's a big request but first  
on the list is to keep the extra chatter on the net to a bare minimum.  
Use Xastir to send APRS messages to key people, have at least two  
running the net and a third to write things down.


On Jun 2, 2009, at 11:28 PM, Mike Benonis wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> -- 
>> Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
>> Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236        http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
>> In some cultures what I do would be considered normal.
>>                                 -- Ineffective daily affirmation
>>
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73's
Keith Kaiser
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