.kml can also be opened easily in QGIS, but editing is not possible.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Noli Sicad <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nsicad@gmail.com" target="_blank">nsicad@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Just convert your kml to shapefile, then you can easily open shapefile in QGIS.<br>
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You can use OGR2OGR to convert kml to shapefile in FWTools<br>
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<a href="http://fwtools.maptools.org/" target="_blank">http://fwtools.maptools.org/</a><br>
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ogr2ogr -f 'ESRI Shapefile' output.shp input.kml<br>
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Details in this site:<br>
<a href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/98/how-can-i-convert-between-kml-and-esris-shapefile-format" target="_blank">http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/98/how-can-i-convert-between-kml-and-esris-shapefile-format</a><br>


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Noli<br>
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On 7/31/12, Harish <<a href="mailto:harry.om2000@gmail.com" target="_blank">harry.om2000@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Did you save as .kmz or .kml from My places?<br>
><br>
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Harikumar Sivanandan<br>
> <<a href="mailto:hakucomet@gmail.com" target="_blank">hakucomet@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Sir,<br>
>> I exported a kml file consisting of roads, paths and lines from My places<br>
>> in Google maps. It is opening in Google Earth, but I am not able to open<br>
>> it<br>
>> as a vector layer in QGIS.<br>
>> However I am able to open a Google earth kml file consisting of only<br>
>> points in QGIS. What should I do to open a kml file consisting of lines?<br>
>> With regards<br>
>> Harikumar<br>
>> Kollam, India<br>
>><br>
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