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

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  • Subject: [GEMPAK #QCN-811498]: Gempak and Google Earth
  • Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:42:19 -0600
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
> Package Version:
> Operating System:
> Hardware:
> 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