[gdal-dev] KMZ Support in OGR?

Tamas Szekeres szekerest at gmail.com
Fri Mar 28 13:24:04 EDT 2008


Simon,

I'm not sure whether the zip file record structure is implemented in
zlib or not. If the latter is the case implementing this would be
slightly beyond the scope of GDAL. There are several projects out
there to provide such API for various kind of languages.

Best regards,

Tamas



2008/3/28, Simon Perkins <sy at perkins.net>:
> Hi,
>
>  Does the OGR KML driver support reading and/or writing of KMZ files?
>
>  KMZ files are simply zipped KML files which allow smaller file sizes and
>  bundling of multiple files in one package. I think that google earth
>  uses the format by default.
>
>  Since GDAL already includes zlib, I would think that adding support for
>  this would be pretty simple, if it's not there already. Anyone planning
>  on doing this?
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Simon
>
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