ogr2ogr can convert KML to Shapfile (and many other formats). Here's a list of all the supported formats...
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html The command line is something like... ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" output.shp input.kml This is the python wrapper for the polygonize functionality... http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk/gdal/swig/python/scripts/gdal_polygonize.py It comes packaged with the RPMs in EPEL, if RHEL or CentOS is your thing. -Kristian On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 10:09 -0600, Randy Cosby wrote: > Thanks Brian, Kristian, > > I'll have to check out Splat! some time soon. My process involved > converting the Radiomobile overlay into a raster (svg) in Inkscape, then > convert that to KML. I can't remember off the top of my head how I did > it, but I was able to preserve the gps coordinates of the shape through > the conversions. My primary need was to create interactive Google maps > (ie: your home can be served by ap1, ap3 and ap4, with ap1 being the > closest). There are a number of apps for converting from KML shapes to > .shp files, just haven't had a chance to experiment with them yet. > > * Inkscape: http://inkscape.org/ > * KML2SVG: http://kml2svg.free.fr/index3.php > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
