On Fri, 22 May 2009, Curt, WE7U wrote:
Hey Tom, how about using one of your scripts to do this so both of
us don't reinvent the wheel here? hi
xastir/scripts/object2shp.pl
Thought process:
1) Bring the POS items in as objects by modifying the file slightly
as was already reported to work here.
2) Take the object.log file and run it through object2shp.pl.
3) Put the new map (maps?) into your map directory, reindex, and use
the new map as an overlay.
We could automate step #1 with YAPS (yet another Perl script) later
perhaps, but this should get overlay maps going for the weekend,
right?
One downside: The script depends on a few binaries which come with
the Shapelib install, but not with the internal Shapelib that we
ship inside the Xastir code:
shpcreate
dbfcreate
shpadd
dbfadd
On my system:
> rpm -q -f /usr/bin/shpcreate
shapelib-1.2.10-8.1
People will need to install Shapelib to use the script.
Hmmm. I see the *.c files in xastir/src/shapelib, so perhaps it's
just a matter of running "make" there with the correct options.
They're defined in the "distdir" target but "make distdir" errors
out.
These _do_ work:
make shpcreate
make dbfcreate
make shpadd
make dbfadd
So then it's just a matter of making sure they're in your PATH when
you run the object2shp.pl script. The Shapelib that we distribute
with Xastir _will_ work for this method!
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