[Qgis-user] how to display polygons from qgis in google earth?

[Giovanni Manghi]

Hi,

On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 10:55 +0100, M.E.Dodd wrote:
> No this does not work, it simply gives all positions as lat 1 degree
> long 1 degree i.e. plots all the data in the middle of the ocean.

the suggestion ("save as...") should work also for lines and polygons
(and it works indeed). 

> However if you convert from ordnance survey to lat long outside qgis
> then bring the data back into qgis telling it that its wgs84 then
> create the kml then it does work.  This is fine for points, but I
> can’t see how to do it for polygons or lines.

can you link to some data do make a local test?

cheers

-- Giovanni --