On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:02:33 0200, Volker Fröhlich wrote:
> I've got a question concerning KML and OGR. I noticed, that QGIS doesn't show > data within KML's <extendedData>. QGIS reads KML via OGR. QGIS' Jürgen E. > Fischer pointed out, ogrinfo doesn't show that data either. Hi Volker- reading KML is limited, in both the KML driver and the newer LIBKML driver. There are several categories of reasons for this, here are a couple I can think of now: * the internal format of ogr, Simple Features * the variety of possible KML input * KML as a display format, and not a data interchange format
> The file in question was even written by ogr2ogr and the XML looks perfectly > fine to me. KML output is legal XML both drivers output valid KML
> Why doesn't OGR reveal the flat information in <extendedData>? Would the other > KML driver (libkml) help? > no, the LIBKML driver does not do what are looking for, either, as far as I know I would suggest as a work-around, to hold your data in some other format, and just use KML as display, on demand. hth -Brian > Volker Fröhlich == Brian Hamlin planetwork.net OSGeo California Chapter (415) 717-4462 cell _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
