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 >> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ -- Randy Cosby | InfoWest, Inc | www.infowest.com Vice President | 435-674-0165 x 2010 | facebook.com/infowest -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
