[Qgis-user] Google earth kml file not opening in Qgis

[Nathan Woodrow]

I agree. I think having mixed geometries per layer can make things a
hell of a lot harder and I would rather have a single geom type per
layer.  I used to use MapInfo and it can store different geom types in
one layer, this makes it hard to style (more of a limitation of
MapInfo I admit), hard to work with from a programming point of view
(you now have to check the geom type each time because it might have
changed), and just a pain to manage.  It makes sense to keep things
apart.

Like the GPX import, QGIS should handle multi geom layers better by
just splitting it out into many layers.

- Nathan


On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Andre Joost <andre+joost at nurfuerspam.de> wrote:
> Am 31.07.2012 16:51, schrieb Zoltan Szecsei:
>>
>> On 2012/07/31 16:30, Ralf Wessels wrote:
>>>
>>> Andre is right - qgis (_like other gis systems too)_ cannot display
>>>
>>> points, lines and polygons in one layer. It has to be either points or
>>> lines or polygons. In a kml-file this is no problem.
>>
>>
>> The "like other gis systems" part of your statement is total hogwash.
>> Sorry.
>> You've obviously only been brought up on a diet of ShapeFiles.
>>
>
> To calm down:
>
> It has some advantages to have different geometry types separately in
> different layers.
>
> The GPX import in Qgis makes three different layers out of points, routes
> and tracks within the same file. It would be nice to implement this in kml
> import, if several geometry types are encountered in the same folder. This
> is far better than just throw away elements of other types.
>
> Greetings,
> Andre Joost
>
>
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