On 7/31/2015 5:02 AM, k1jsh@... [ui-view] wrote:
Hi All,
I have searched the forums and I don't know that I can find the answer to
this... Is there a way to build a route within Google Maps, export it to a
KMZ/KML file and then transfer it to an overlay in UI View? There have been
some posts about this, but I'm unclear about the answer. Any help would be
appreciated.
Thanks!
Jamie, K1JSH
The freeware open-source utility "GPSbabel" available at
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can read and write and write a huge number of GPS data and map data file
formats and convert from one to another. Specifically it can read/write KML
format files, and write them out as either CSV text files or dBase files.
In turn Precision Mapping by itself, or the PMap Server for UIview can import
either of these two formats. The result will be a bunch of point objects, not
a route of line segments.
Note that Precision Mapping 9/PMap Server 9 can import the ESRI ARCview .SHP or
MapInfo .MIF vector file formats. This utility
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purports to convert .KML to .SHP format which can then be imported into PMap
Server. Since the .SHP format can handle multiple line-segment objects (i.e.
"Polylines") it should be able to preserve the route as a route rather than as
a bunch of point objects. I've never tried it so I don't know how well it
works. (I use the MapInfo program to import stuff into .MIF format, then
import that into PMap Server.)
It's very frustrating that I was in conversation with Undertow Software (PMap
publisher) about 6 months before they killed Precision Mapping to add the .GPX
(GPs eXchange) format to Precision Mapping. GPX is now the most widely used
format to exchange all kinds of mapping data (point objects, routes & track
lines, & area objects) between GPS devices and various mapping programs. For
example, the more recent versions of Delorme Topo, Delorme Street Atlas, MS
MapPoint and Garmin BaseCamp all support GPX imports. Further, GPSbabel can
convert practically anything (including .KML) to GPX format. I have imported
GPX tracks from my Garmin nuvi into MapPoint and Topo many times, and they show
as routes (not points). Your task would have been quite trivial if GPS had
made it into Precision Mapping (and by extension the UIview PMap Server 9)
before it "died".
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