[Xastir] Using Mapbox maps on Xastir

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 12:39:36PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> We don't handle either of those.  I'm not sure what kind of info is in
> there, but if it's possible to run "gpsbabel" against either one and
> turn them into a GPX file, you can then turn that into a Shapefile and
> use it in Xastir.

The best converter for such formats into shapefile would be ogr2ogr, one of 
the command line tools from GDAL.  It groks both GeoJSON and KML.

  ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" outputfile.shp inputfile.kml


> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Eric H. Christensen
> <eric at christensenplace.us> wrote:
> > I've got an event this weekend where amateur radio will be providing the main communications support.  I've created a map[0] in Mapbox to show all the information about the route and rest stops along the way.  Here's what I'm curious about: can I use this in Xastir as I will be tracking several stations on APRS along the way?
> >
> > Mapbox offers an API[1] as well as the ability to download a GeoJSON and KML file.  I'm just not up on what Xastir can do cartography-wise.  What are my options, here?
> >
> > 73,
> > Eric W4OTN/3
> >
> > [0] https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/sparks.m5kmpi20/page.html?access_token=pk.eyJ1Ijoic3BhcmtzIiwiYSI6ImZoamk1dmMifQ.WS_WgruA82kmVWgZP_GgcQ#10/35.4517/-79.2320
> > [1] https://www.mapbox.com/developers/api/
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