[gdal-dev] KMLSuperOverlay bounding box variant not supported

[Even Rouault]

Le lundi 19 août 2013 19:48:52, Carl Godkin a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> We obtained some KMLSuperOverlay datasets whose <GroundOverlay> bounding
> box is defined neither with <LatLonBox> nor <LatLonAltBox> but instead with
> the apparently recently added <gx:LatLonQuad> .
> 
> https://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/kmlreference?hl=en#gxlatlon
> quad
> 
> The function KmlSuperOverlayGetBoundingBox() doesn't deal with
> <gx:LatLonQuad> and I don't see a simple way to suggest a patch to this
> function to support it.  Has anyone a suggestion?
> 
> I could submit an enhancement ticket (along with a sample dataset) if it
> would help.

If the coordinates in <gx:LatLonQuad> form a rectangle then it should not be 
very difficult to support, so yes please file a ticket. Otherwise I'm not sure 
what could be done...

> 
> Thanks very much,
> 
> carl

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