On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:23:30 PM Kevin Ratcliff wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Eric H. Christensen > > <[email protected]> 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?
> Since it appears Xastir will not currently support the access token > required for this map and you have a short window of time, perhaps > there are other options to meet your needs. Any reason the map has to > be Mapbox? > > In the past I have exported a bike route as a GPX file, converted to > shapefile and used a simple dbfawk file to display the route on the > map in Xastir. The shapefile will overlay on top of OSM maps. Then we > put the rest stops on the maps as APRS objects. These objects can be > transmitted to other stations on RF if you desire, or you can disable > transmit of objects if nobody else will be using APRS for your event. > Just a thought. Yeah, I've actually started this process. I turned the KML file into a SHP file and now I just need to make the objects. It's not a big deal, I was just hoping to make everything as seemless as possible. Thanks for your help with this. It's been a learning experience for me as well! 73, Eric W4OTN/3 _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
