[Gdal-dev] Quickly generating Google Earth files

[Michael Ashbridge]

On 8/6/07, Jose Luis Gomez Dans <josegomez at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> I know there's a GSoC project dealing with a full-fledged GDAL KML driver. I take it that this will enable to quickly publish things like the datasets shown in <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/geography/research/emm/geodata/>.
>
> We have heaps of raster-based information, and it would be interesting to see if we can serve it through a kmz file, as in the examples above. While I understand the new driver will allow that sort of thing, I was wondering whether it is possible to do something similar as of today, with a current version of GDAL.
>
> Any hints or comments?

http://code.google.com/p/regionator/

Some sample code there showing how to generate Region-based KML files
to publish large amounts of data. As Christopher notes, you'll need to
reproject anything that isn't 4326.