On 03/21/2016 03:11 PM, Tom Russo wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:12:06PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: >> Running Debian 8.3 and can't seem to figure out what I need to install >> to make this script work: >> >> $ perl /usr/local/share/xastir/scripts/gpx2shape TdC_100.gpx >> Can't locate Geo/Shapelib.pm in @INC (you may need to install the >> Geo::Shapelib module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl >> /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.20.2 >> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20 /usr/share/perl5 >> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20 /usr/share/perl/5.20 >> /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/local/share/xastir/scripts/gpx2shape >> line 28. >> >> >> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at >> /usr/local/share/xastir/scripts/gpx2shape line 28. >> >> I don't see any perl package for Shapelib (or similar). > > > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Geo-Shapelib-0.21/Shapelib.pm
Yeah, I tried that, too, but no joy. > > But don't get your hopes up --- that script was written in 2006 and was never > modified. It might work if you have the Shapelib.pm module, but might > not. Yeah, I'm giving up on that script. I can't get it to work. :( > You may be better off using gdal tools to convert gpx files to shapefiles. > They are extremely powerful and are under constant development. > > The tool to use for this would be "ogr2ogr", which can convert any vector > format that GDAL supports to any other format that GDAL supports. GPX and > Shapefile are among those. I installed GDAL but I can't seem to figure out how to make the ogr2ogr script to work (and the documentation is minimal). I didn't realize it was going to be so difficult to get a GPX track to show up in Xastir! *sigh* 73, Eric WG3K _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
