[gdal-dev] in memory KML

[Mano Marks]

Seems like libkml would be a good candidate for handling KML in memory.

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net> wrote:
> 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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