Does APRS.fi Support Importing KML Files?
Mark Kanko
Hello.
I’m trying to overlay a bike race route onto APRS.fi and am wondering:
a) Does APRS.fi support importing a KML file?
b) And if so, how can this be done?
Research I’ve done:
1) I found some information on the web that indicated it was possible to import a KML file (e.g., from Google My Maps) into APRS.fi. The instructions roughly go like this.
- Create KML: Create a map in Google My Maps and export it as a KML file.
- Host the File: Host the .kml file on a public web server (e.g., GitHub Gist, Dropbox).
- Embed in aprs.fi: Add the URL parameter to your aprs.fi address bar.
Example: https://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&kml=http://yoururl.com/map.kml.
Note: If aprs.fi is loaded via https, the KML URL must also be https.
I tried this (using Dropbox), but couldn’t get it to work.
2) However, on the APRS.fi Google Group, I found this:
https://groups.google.com/g/aprsfi/c/Xlo_XJoR2FM/m/Skql7ErdAAAJ
Overlay for APRS.FI real time map
Darrell
Jan 30, 2025, 9:29:18 PM
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Is it possible to use an overlay of a race route on the APRS.FI real time map?
Working a marathon in a few weeks and would like to overlay the race route on the APRS.FI real time map. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Darrell N5FTW
Jim Hall
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Feb 1, 2025, 3:23:07 PM
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I used to have great success with overlays using kml files, but that capability went away when APRS.fi went through a major update. I was hoping that feature, or some other method of overlays, would become available. Is that still a possibility in the near future, or unlikely at this point? 73 - Jim - Ad4eb
Thans much!
Mark Kanko / N5DAK
Heikki Hannikainen
> I’m trying to overlay a bike race route onto APRS.fi and am wondering:
> a) Does APRS.fi support importing a KML file?
After the Leaflet integration it has not been available, unfortunately; I
did not get around to implementing KML loading in Leaflet. Sorry about
that.
I should re-do that part some time.
- Hessu
Mark Kanko
While providing logistics and safety support to a local bike rally with over 100 riders, our ham radio club would appreciate and benefit from having the KML import feature re-implemented, if possible.
Thank you for your great product!!
Mark/N5DAK
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Mark Kanko
Bob:
Are these the aprs.fi website instructions to which you were referring?
A couple questions:
- Will this work on the web version of Google Earth, or do I need to install Google Earth on my local machine?
- Do I have to be logged in to aprs.fi?
- Where can I find the “Temporary Places” referred to in #1 above?
- I couldn’t find “APRS tracking” anywhere, either…?
- Where can I find “X points of Y stations” in APRS, referenced in #3 above?
Thanks!!
Mark/N5DAK
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Mark Kanko
Thanks, Bob. I’ll look into this!
Mark/N5DAK
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