lol Awesome! Can you imagine ESRI creating a utility this way? Thanks for doing this.
Roger -- On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Hamish <[email protected]> wrote: > Andrew wrote: >> > I would like to export raster files to a Google Earth >> > image (kmz or kml). >> > Does anyone know how this is done? I found a way >> > to export a vector to a kmz file, but not a raster. > > Roger André wrote: >> The easiest way to do this for 1 or 2 reasonably sized rasters >> is to simply write a very short KML file that points to the >> image name and defines its geographic extents. If you have to >> do it for hundreds of files, then scripting it is much >> faster. > ... >> Here is what the KML should look like: >> >> <GroundOverlay> >> <description>Something pithy</description> >> <name>Something else pithy</name> >> <visibility>1</visibility> >> <open>1</open> >> <Icon> >> <href>"name_of_image_file"</href> >> </Icon> >> <drawOrder>0</drawOrder> >> <LatLonBox> >> <north> DD.dddd</north> >> <south> DD.dddd</south> >> <west> DD.dddd</west> >> <east> DD.dddd</east> >> </LatLonBox> >> </GroundOverlay> > > based on this template I've added a r.out.kml script in addons > SVN to do that. > > https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass-addons/raster/r.out.kml > > > TODO: > - completely untested > - g.region -n is broken in at least devbr6 (trac #791) so > export only works from LL/WGS84 right now > - pythonization > - add a -k flag to d.out.file to write a KML file (test true north angle(s)!) > > comments/testing/suggestions welcome. > > > Hamish > > > > > _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
