Thanks Andre. I eventually found directions that made more sense considering it is a raster. As you said, open the .kml file in texteditor, look at the coordinates, then put them into the georeferencer in QGIS. I.
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Andre Joost <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 30.08.2014 08:53, schrieb Innisfree McKinnon: > > Hello all, >> I'm also having an issue opening a .kml file. I downloaded a .kmz file of >> a >> historic map and would like to open it in QGIS. After reading what I could >> find online, I opened it in Google Earth and saved it as a .kml file. Then >> I went into QGIS and attempted to open it as a vector layer, selecting >> "files of type:Keyhole Markup Language." The title appears under layers, >> but it doesn't actually display. I thought it might be a projection >> problem, so I tried "zoom to to layer" but that doesn't seem to have any >> effect. >> >> Any help would be much appreciated. I could georeference the file myself, >> but since it has already been done, I was trying to avoid duplicating that >> work. >> >> > The KML driver is designed for importing vector data (points, lines and > polygons). From your description, the .kml seems to display a raster file, > therefore nothing gets imported. The same might happen if the kml only > contains an internet link to the raster file. > > You can however look into the kml file with any text editor, and look out > for georeferencing information. That can be used to build a .vrt file, > which serves for QGIS as a wrapper the same way as your kml does for Google > Earth. > > Mabe you can provide the dwomload link of the original kmz to help further. > > HTH, > André Joost > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >
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