POS2KML(1)

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✨ POS2KML ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because pos2kml is here and she is serving conversions 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

pos2kml — the girl who takes your position format and turns it into a Google Earth KML file, no cap 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pos2kml [option]... file [...]

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

So basically: you feed her your solution file(s), and she reads them and converts them into a Google Earth KML file. That's the whole vibe. 🌈

Every single line in your input file needs to have fields of time, position fields — and the position can be either latitude/longitude/height or x/y/z-ecef — plus a quality flag if you're using that option. 🫶

And if a line starts with %, #, or ;? Yeah, she's not reading that. It's a comment. She's treating it as a comment. Ignored. Periodt. 🙈

Command options are as follows, and heads up: ([]:default) — that's how you read the defaults in the brackets, iykyk. 💀

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -h — print help ✨ (she's helpful like that)
  • -o file — output file, default is infile + .kml 🎀
  • -c color — track color. Your choices are 0:off, 1:white, 2:green, 3:orange, 4:red, 5:yellow, and the default is 5 🌈
  • -p color — point color. Choices: 0:off, 1:white, 2:green, 3:orange, 4:red, 5:by qflag, and the default is 5 ⭐
  • -a — output altitude information, default is off 💜
  • -ag — output geodetic altitude, default is off 🦋
  • -tg — output time stamp of gpst, default is off ⏰
  • -tu — output time stamp of utc, default is gpst 🌸
  • -i tint — output time interval in seconds, where 0 means all, and the default is 0 ⌛
  • -q qflg — output q-flags, where 0 means all, and the default is 0 🔥
  • -f n e h — add north/east/height offset to position, measured in meters, and the default is 0 0 0 👑
lowkey important: those defaults in brackets? that's the []:default thing from up top. she's not being cryptic, she's just being efficient bestie 💖

and that's the whole page, you ate it, you understood it, main character energy only 🌟

this iconic little manual came from the General Commands Manual, dated July 29 2016, and it goes by POS2KML(1) — mwah, no notes 💋

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