Hamish, thank you. You are always there... ;-)
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 20:53 -0800, Hamish wrote: > Nikos Alexandris wrote: > > Maybe I am just loosin' my time struggling to import KML polygons in > > GRASS but here is my attempt and my problems. > > You might try using v.in.gpsbabel, > http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-1.3.0/fmt_kml.html > http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-1.3.0/fmt_google.html I tried that in the past. I will re-check it. > > > > The problem is that the coordinates are given in form of x,y,z but > > continuously... that is one "x,y,z" field after another separated by > > "space" and not in separate lines! > > > > It looks like this: > > > > x1,y1,z1 x2,y2,z2 x3,y3,z3 [...] xi,yi,zi > > > > and NOT like this: > > > > x1,y1,z1 > > x2,y2,z > > x3,y3,z3 > > [...] > > xi,yi,zi > > perhaps: > > cat infile | tr ' ' '\n' > outfile > edit outfile, add "L " > v.in.ascii > > or search & replace in nedit or some nice editor. > ? > > see v.in.garmin, v.in.gpsbabel for awk magic to add "L number" to lines > automatically. > Checking that as well... > > > 7. If this is going to work I was thinking to "grep" somehow the > > metadata out of the "saved as txt file" and force it with a script in > > the X.grass-ready ascii > > see v.in.garmin, v.in.gpsbabel for ideas on creating a DB table and > linking it to lines by cat number. > > > > * ogr officially supports "KML" reading and writing. I can't read > > with ogrinfo any KML file. I have read about "expat" support... > > but isn't this activated by default in ogr coming with FWTools? > > fyi expat: > $ apt-cache show libexpat1 > .... > Description: XML parsing C library - runtime library > This package contains the runtime, shared library of expat, the C > library for parsing XML. hmmm... I see. -- yes I have it. > > > If you find a nice solution could you add some instructions on the > wiki? > Including all the links people have mentioned. If I make it "merging" all this advices I will definitely do that! > > > > Hamish Cheers, Nikos > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > > -- Nikos Alexandris . Department of Remote Sensing & Landscape Information Systems Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg . Tel. +49 (0) 761 203 3697 / Fax. +49 (0) 761 203 3701 / Skype: Nikos.Alexandris . Address: Tennenbacher str. 4, D-79106 Freiburg i. Br., Germany
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