Interesting.  So if the kml file includes a .png shape, it will 
convert that to vector first, then into shp?

Randy


On 10/11/2010 10:26 AM, Kristian Hoffmann wrote:
> 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
>>
>
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