View Kismet data in Google Earth

There are many ways to visualize your kismet logs with gps information. I tried some of them, in my opinion the following method is the best.

Download and extract the latest version of kisgearth.

To convert kismet logs to a google earth .kml-file use the kisgearth.pl perl script:

./kisgearth.pl -G /var/log/kismet/Kismet-Jul-05-2009-1.gps -oN mymap.kml -n 1 -s -- /var/log/kismet/Kismet-Jul-05-2009-1.xml

For more options use

./kisgearth.pl -h

Now start Google Earth and open the mymap.kml file and you are done.

The drawback of this method is the need of having google earth installed. On the other hand you can browse your collected data with many details about the networks available, while other solutions such as the "gpsmap" command only creates static images with the found networks on them.