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QSO Maps Fully Automated

Rockmite ham radio QSOs are now mapped in one fell swoop without me having to look up addresses or geographic locations for receiving stations. rm-rbn-history now creates kml maps from QSO data automatically!

The mapping program for QSOs from the Rockmite has come to full fruition, (at least for the moment). With an input list of QSOs like the following


POTA Organ Mountains de KD0FNR 23_04_25
-106.557943661198000
32.371302453347500
K4SUE,2023/04/25 02:35:00,599,599
W7OQ,2023/04/25 02:07:00,579,599
KB4N,2023/04/25 02:12:00,559,579
W6DX,2023/04/25 02:15:00,449,559
WB8DTT,2023/04/25 02:40:00,599,599
W9MET,2023/04/25 02:42:00,559,599
WB2WGX,2023/04/25 02:49:00,339,599
KG4ZQZ,2023/04/25 12:27:00,559,559
WB8DTT,2023/04/25 12:32:00,559,589
KF9R,2023/04/25 12:35:00,559,599
N8BB,2023/04/25 12:35:00,559,559
NG6R,2023/04/25 12:38:00,559,599
KA9DCU,2023/04/25 13:00:00,559,579
KB3AD,2023/04/25 13:02:00,559,589
N2EM,2023/04/25 13:04:00,329,579
WK4DS,2023/04/25 16:08:00,339,449


the repository automatically runs new code that produces a kml with a filename created from teh first line of the input above, and places it in the maps directory of the repository. Loading the map into Google Earth results in 


The repository code looks to see if there are new QSOs to geocode, and if so gets a QRZ.com session from which it loads in the mailing addresses of each QSO. The next step is to use the Google Maps geocoding API to return the longitude and latitude of each station. Given that information, the kml map is produced.

Refrences

The new features are outlined in several issues in the repository like these:

The features are enabled by the Google Geocoding API

and the QRZ.com XML data port:



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