[Qgis-user] trouble importing a .kml from Google Maps

[Geofrey Sanders]

I tried ogr2ogr and it told me the KML file 'contains no layers'.
Looking inside the file, it in fact has no GIS data at all, only a
URL. Here I was wondering if this was going to be a problem with \r\n
vs. \n line endings or Unicode some other formatting problem...thanks
for your suggestion, it got me looking in the right place!

Geofrey Sanders
Weather Call Customer Care
geofrey at weathercall.net
voicemail: 1 (800) 260-6695



On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 13:44, Woolard, Zachary
S.<zwoolard at moorecountync.gov> wrote:
>
> You can convert the KML file to a shapefile using the ogr2ogr command in
> FWtools - http://fwtools.maptools.org/.
>
> Zachary Woolard
>
> GIS Programmer Analyst
>
> County of Moore
>
> PO Box 905
>
> Carthage, NC 28327
>
> Phone: 910 947 1078
>
> Fax: 910 947 2313
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Geofrey Sanders
> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 1:30 PM
> To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [Qgis-user] trouble importing a .kml from Google Maps
>
> I'm trying to pull a custom Google Map into QGIS with a view to adding
> in additional data like county boundaries, however I've been unable to
> add the file as a vector layer, getting the 'not a valid or recognized
> data source' message. I'm importing from a .kml file saved from the
> Google Maps web interface.
>
> I'm running QGIS 1.1.0, installed from the OSGeo4w package manager.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated, as it really seems like I
> should be able to use KMLs without hassle...
>
> -gws
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