Linux: Map Software For Arc Files

[+jeffk42]

Does anyone have any recommendations for mapping software in Linux? I'd like to start creating some arc files for when I'm travelling. Right now the only software I use is GPSBabel.

 

Unfortunately, even WINE is pretty much out of the question since they don't currently support he x86_64 platform very well.

[robertlipe]

There are a variety of mapping options, but I've found the most satisyfing to be no maps. See recent discussion at: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.p...&forum_id=12066

[+jeffk42]

Thanks for the link! Reading it now.

[+jeffk42]

Ooh that script excerpt is cool. Commence tinkering!

 

FYI for anyone viewing this... posted by "Mike Hostetler" in the link above:

 

[ ! -f ${ROUTEF} ] && {
	wget -O - "http://maps.google.com/maps?q=$FROM to $TO&output=js" |
	gpsbabel -i google -f - -x simplify,count=200 -o arc  -F ${ROUTEF}
}

[robertlipe]

Though Mike appears to be a competent scripter, he didn't write the above. That fragment was written by someone with a little more GPSBabel experience than Mike...

 

The basic idea is also presented in the Google Mapping Hacks book from O Reilley in a hack authored by yet a different card-carrying Babelhead.

[+jeffk42]

Thanks for the info Robert... I seem to be having a slight problem with this though... I was wondering if you could shed some light on it.

 

To see exactly what was happening, I separated this out. Instead of piping it directly in, I tried this:

 

$ wget -O tempgooglefile http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Orlando+FL+to+Fort+Myers+FL&output=js
$ gpsbabel -i google -f tempgooglefile -x simplify,count=200 -o arc  -F o_to_fm.arc

 

But I'm doing something wrong, obviously.

 

XML Reader:Parse error at 1: not well-formed (invalid token)

 

and I get an arc file of 0 length.

 

Am I doing something obviously wrong here?

[+jeffk42]

OOH! Nevermind, I'm retarded.

 

Got it working. Thanks for the info again!

 

Turns out I forgot quotes as well as some other stuff.

 

wget -O - "http://local.google.com/local?f=d&hl=en&saddr=Orlando,+FL&daddr=Fort+Myers,+FL&output=js" | gpsbabel -i google -f - -x simplify,count=200 -o arc  -F o_to_fm.arc