[gdal-dev] OGR support for Google Latitude KML output

[Ulrich Strötz]

Thanks Even for getting on this so quickly!

I built GDAL from source after you committed your changes, though I still only get the start and end point. 
Did you try it with my sample file?

Thanks,

Uli


> On Dec 4, 2014, at 10:07, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
> 
> Le mercredi 03 décembre 2014 19:53:44, Ulrich Strötz a écrit :
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I am trying to use ogr2ogr with a KML file generated by Google My Tracks
>> <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.maps.myt
>> racks&hl=en>.
>> 
>> There was a ticket #5095 <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/5095> about
>> this which is marked as fixed, but it still does not work properly.
>> 
>> I use GDAL 1.11.1, released 2014/09/24 and the following command:
>> ogr2ogr -f "GeoJSON" out.geojson in.kml
>> 
>> It does create only the start and end points of the track, but not the
>> points in between.
>> 
>> The sample file can be found here.
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/ilafup4m0vcvmxj/in.kml?dl=0
>> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/ilafup4m0vcvmxj/in.kml?dl=0>
>> 
>> Any help on how to get this to work is appreciated.
> 
> Ulrich,
> 
> Ticket 5095 was about gx:Track, but the geometry in your file is a 
> gx:MultiTrack. I've just added support for the later in the LIBKML driver in 
> GDAL trunk.
> 
> Even
> 
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