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.