[Qgis-user] wikimapia in qgis?

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

Dario wrote:
> you can open the kml file in qgis (wikimapia.org / ge.kml) that provides 
> data wikimapia for viewing on google earth?
> 
> Is there any way to view this file in qgis?
> Or is there another way to view the content of wikimapia in qgis?

Kml is just a vector data format which can be read and written by OGR, 
the library that is used for that by QGIS.

So yes: you can just open a kml file via 'add vector layer' and choose 
.kml files.

Only 'drawback': the popup information which is in the kml always in an 
attribute called 'Description' and often holds all information in some 
html-format is not formatted/rendered as html, but as a string of the 
html-source.

@devs: nice feature? Maybe some api-call so you can override the 
'identify-tool'-popup with some python-qt-web-widget impl?

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde