Kismet and KML
This tool is available as part of Kismet when built from source, or in the kismet-logtools package, as of 2019-07-git
.
KML
KML is an XML-based markup language for use with Google Earth.
Converting
The simplest way to convert a kismetdb log to a KML is to simply run the conversion tool:
$ kismetdb_to_kml --in some-kismet-log-file.kismet --out some-kml-file.kml
Conversion options
-
--verbose
Add more status output to the console while
kismetdb_to_kml
runs. -
--skip-clean
By default,
kismetdb_to_kml
runs a SQL Vacuum command to optimize the database and clean up any journal files. Skipping this process will save time on larger captures. -
--basic-location
By default,
kismetdb_to_kml
computes a final average across all the packets seen; this can be more precise than the running average Kismet computes. If packets were not logged, or to save time and processing, passing--basic-location
will use the average location computed runtime, instead.