in Tower, add a shapefile (.shp)?

[LutinMalefique]

Hi,
I'm new to Solo but i have a custom drone runing a Piwhawk. I do some mapping and i want to know if it possible to add an ESRI shapefile in Tower for a better location of the survey?

thanks

 

[Pedals2Paddles]

I've never seen or read about anyone doing that in my experience on DIYD or here. Nothing comes up googling it either. Doesn't appear to be doable at this time.

 

[franknitty69]

tower doesn't support shapefiles. to add that functionality would require a custom version of tower. since tower is open source all it would take would be to do it.

mapbox supports shapefiles so what you can do is create a map with a shapefile layer and then use that map in tower.

 

[PdxSteve]

Will Tower use/import other formats? I've used shape files quite a bit and have written some converters to use with google maps, etc.

 

[MillsapsPE]

FWIW, you can use shapefiles in Mission Planner.

 

[franknitty69]

Will Tower use/import other formats? I've used shape files quite a bit and have written some converters to use with google maps, etc.

@PdxSteve Tower itself can't import anything other missions

here is tower using a mapbox classic style with 3 shapefile layers

 

[LutinMalefique]

thanks for your replies, i'll look more closely Mapbox because i haven't succeeded yet connected Solo to Mission planner...

 

[Klopsos]

I managed to create a Mapbox classic project and to use it at as background layer in Tower. In the next step I imported a GeoJSON polygon into the map whcih is displayed accuratly. If I open the map in a browser everything looks well. I can swithc on and off the vector-layer with a button. In Tower neither the tab for the layer selection nor the vector-file itself is displayed.
Maybe you guys have a solution for that problem. Maybe my whole worklow is wrong...