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

[Geofrey Sanders]

I'm pleased to report success; it took pulling the 'real' map URL out
of the saved KML file and decoding the HTML entities (as per
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/maps/thread?tid=3b110e6877a935ce&hl=en)
to get at the data...but that link finally led to usable map
information, which I'm able to import just fine (into Pan). Converting
to a Shapefile also works perfectly for importing into Kore, so thank
you for your help, Zachary and Jamie!

http://www.christianmontoya.com/wp-content/randoms/props.jpg

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



On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:30, Geofrey
Sanders<weathercallmaphelp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>