[GEMPAK #QCN-811498]: Gempak and Google Earth

Hi Alan,

There is no direct way to do this, GEMPAK is quite old and this is not the sort 
of capability that the developers had in mind.

However, I have done something similar on my own time.  I was producing 
postscript files as output and converting them to SVG with a tool called 
pstoedit.  I would guess that it's not too difficult to convert SVG to KML 
after that step.  Here's the first promising results I found: 
http://bitbucket.org/tbrugz/kmlutils/

Michael James
Unidata


> Full Name: Allan Huffman
> Email Address: address@hidden
> Organization: Private
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> Description of problem: HI,
> 
> I was wondering if there were anyway to create kml files from any of
> the gempak programs?
> 
> Or if there were some sort of conversion program out there to do this?
> 
> Specifically I am looking for a way to display the ATCF hurricane model
> tracks on google earth.
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> Allan
> 
> 

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: QCN-811498
Department: Support GEMPAK
Priority: Normal
Status: Open