[gdal-dev] in memory KML

[Mateusz Loskot]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Clay, Bruce wrote:
>> After a bit more digging I am not sure I asked the right question.
>>
>>  
>>
>> What I want to do is read feature information from a shapefile or 
>> other data source and get a string that contains the feature 
>> information encoded in KML that I can pass directly into Google 
>> Earth.  I know I can do this operation is I open the shapefile write 
>> the KML data to disk then open the kml file up with fopen then read it 
>> into memory and send it t Google Earth but I would like to save the 
>> disk write the read operation.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Any thoughts?
> 
> Bruce,
> 
> I've skimmed the KML driver and there is no sign that it uses the VSI*L
> API for file access, so I don't see any way you can write results to a
> memory buffer without substantial recoding in the kml driver.


Looks like a candidate for proposal for the GSoC 2009

Best regards,
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Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net