[GRASS-dev] exporting vector files to kml

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Hello everyone,

I read a few days ago that someone was developing a tool to export vector files to .kml.

Is it already developed?

Kind regards,

Ricardo

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Ricardo Armas wrote on 06/20/2006 01:42 PM:

Hello everyone,

I read a few days ago that someone was developing a tool to export
vector files to .kml.

Yes, I have added faces (GRASS 3D vectors) support to v.out.ogr. KML support
itself comes from OGR.

Is it already developed?

Also yes:
http://mpa.itc.it/markus/tmp/trento3d_google_earth.png
Please note that Google Earth is not free software.

What you need:
- GDAL/OGR from CVS since KML support was recently introduced in OGR
   http://ogr.maptools.org
- GRASS 6.1-CVS (or recent CVS snapshot).

Markus

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Ricardo Armas wrote:

I read a few days ago that someone was developing a tool to export vector
files to .kml.

..

Is it already developed?

OGR supports KML creation:

http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html

from GRASS use v.out.ogr.

Hamish