Thanks Even, I was trying to overlay the kml on top of my crowdmap which uses OpenStreetMaps (which is in EPSG 900913 or 3857) as baselayer. When my kml did not appear, I thought I had to reproject it to the projection of the baselayer..
Looks like the problem lies elsewhere - maybe the ogr2ogr-output kml is missing a scale or size tag for the points...or something like that best, Vishal -----Original Message----- From: Even Rouault [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 4:02 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Vishal Mehta Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] ogr2ogr: problems converting from shapefile to kml Le jeudi 07 avril 2011 00:39:59, Vishal Mehta a écrit : > Hi all, > > I'm having some trouble with a simple conversion from shapefile to kml. > Description > 1. I need to have a points file in kml that is is EPSG 3857 (the mercator > that Google uses) I'm afraid that you are loosing your time. KML coordinates must be expressed in EPSG:4326 per the spec. See http://code.google.com/intl/fr/apis/kml/documentation/kmlreference.html and specifically : """<Location> Specifies the exact coordinates of the Model's origin in latitude, longitude, and altitude. Latitude and longitude measurements are standard lat- lon projection with WGS84 datum. """ This is also reminded in the OGR KML doc : see http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_kml.html _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
