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Not the operating system you want, but BaseCamp by Garmin can read your kml file, and exporting to csv gives a file that can be added with delimited text to QGIS. The data leads to Indonesia.
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Unfortunately, KML is not a very strict standard. That means that almost every form of data storage is allowed, as long as it is valid XML. The kml drivers ...
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Some great examples in the links there! One thing not mentioned in your links, which should be useful, is OpenLayers' Strategy.Refresh call. In this you can set a time interval for refreshing a vector layer automatically.
Also, I create 3D animated landscape visualizations for public participation in planning and they are stand-alone (not web-based), so I ...
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Something to keep in mind is that portolan chart navigation maps like Piri Reis don't a have coordinate system, rather they are several different local coordinate systems munged together -- each one of the rosettas or compass rose like symbols is a projection source of origin, loosely speaking.
So you can't just georeference the image in the usual GIS way ...
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There is a raster version of the Map
You can digitise from this source for personal use.
KMZ
http://www.gearthhacks.com/dlfile12068/Piri-Reis-Map.htm
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Based in QGIS
Underdarks's Tutorial
Layer “start_flash” is a medium sized dot that marks the appearance of a new tweet.
Layer “big_flash” is a bigger dot of the same color which will appear after “start_flash”.
Layer “permanent” is a small dot that will be visible even after the flash vanishes.
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See these examples mainly related to transportation
UK London tube
Netherland example
Switzerland example
Leaflet animated marker plugin
PS: Not Qgis related but can answer to the need
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Check out the open-source GDAL/OGR utilities - (the OGR part) http://www.gdal.org/ogr2ogr.html
ogr2ogr.exe is a command-line tool which can be used in the FOR loop in a batch file to go through all your files and transform them. (for example in windows you create a *.bat file and put your DOS code for looping there).
In the OGR link above there is also a ...
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