[gdal-dev] Re: converting csv to kml: locations displaced in Google Earth

[Stefan Keller]

You can also try out my beta release of a free online vector file converter
which is based on OGR:
http://geoconverter.hsr.ch !

-- Stefan

2008/1/13, Tim Michelsen <timmichelsen at gmx-topmail.de>:
>
> Hello!
>
> > Maybe someone else can comment on how to property format your CSV to be
> > read by ogr2ogr, or you could try GPSBABEL as a download:
> > http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-development/fmt_csv.html
> >
> > or online:
> > http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/gpsbabel/
> I found out (by trial & error) that CSv files are read well if the have
> the following attributes:
> * use comma ( , ) as separator
> * if the fields have text with comma wrap it in "": "Singapur, Asia"
>
> If exporting from Office I found the OpenOffice Calc export dialog to
> better that Excel: it allows to specify the charset which is useful for
> non-english texts.
>
> Kind regards,
> Timmie
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