On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Curt, WE7U<[email protected]> wrote: > Speaking of "useful for SAR", I've done a cool trick with files from > mapXchange, which is the National Geographic "TOPO!" site where > people share their recorded GPS trails with others. The trick is: > Use a very recent "gpsbabel" to convert the data to "GPX" format, > then use xastir/scripts/gpx2shape to convert to Shapefiles.
Thanks Curt. I have used a similar tool called "gpx2shp" (http://gpx2shp.sourceforge.jp/) for converting GPX files to shapefiles. It's in the Ubuntu repositories so it's a piece of cake to install. I tried the Xastir gpx2shape script once on Ubuntu 9.04 but it couldn't find a required perl module, I think, and I didn't bother to track it down. It's been a little while since I tried it, so I don't recall exactly what the error was. I'm not familiar with the TOPO! sharing site, but there are a lot of popular trail/trackfile sharing sites now, and many/most of them provide GPX export capability. Kevin KB9MQU _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
