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
[email protected]
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 <[email protected]> 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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