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
[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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