[gdal-dev] OGR support for Google Latitude KML output

[Ulrich Strötz]

I didn’t compile against libkml. I compiled again against libkml and now it works perfect.

Thanks again for this great fix! Makes my work a lot easier :)

Uli


> On Dec 4, 2014, at 17:17, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
> 
> Le vendredi 05 décembre 2014 00:11:44, Ulrich Strötz a écrit :
>> Thanks Even for getting on this so quickly!
>> 
>> I built GDAL from source after you committed your changes, though I still
>> only get the start and end point. Did you try it with my sample file?
> 
> Yes, I did. Are you compiling against libkml ? 
> 
> When running ogrinfo on the file it should display :
> INFO: Open of `in.kml'
>      using driver `LIBKML' successful.
> 
> If it displays "using driver `KML' successful", then you're using the 'old' 
> KML driver, and gx:Track/MultiTrack won't be recognized.
> 
> Even
> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Uli
>> 
>>> On Dec 4, 2014, at 10:07, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Le mercredi 03 décembre 2014 19:53:44, Ulrich Strötz a écrit :
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>> 
>>>> I am trying to use ogr2ogr with a KML file generated by Google My Tracks
>>>> <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.maps.m
>>>> yt racks&hl=en>.
>>>> 
>>>> There was a ticket #5095 <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/5095> about
>>>> this which is marked as fixed, but it still does not work properly.
>>>> 
>>>> I use GDAL 1.11.1, released 2014/09/24 and the following command:
>>>> ogr2ogr -f "GeoJSON" out.geojson in.kml
>>>> 
>>>> It does create only the start and end points of the track, but not the
>>>> points in between.
>>>> 
>>>> The sample file can be found here.
>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/ilafup4m0vcvmxj/in.kml?dl=0
>>>> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/ilafup4m0vcvmxj/in.kml?dl=0>
>>>> 
>>>> Any help on how to get this to work is appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Ulrich,
>>> 
>>> Ticket 5095 was about gx:Track, but the geometry in your file is a
>>> gx:MultiTrack. I've just added support for the later in the LIBKML driver
>>> in GDAL trunk.
>>> 
>>> Even
> 
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