[gdal-dev] Convert KML to Shapefile PyQGIS

Julierme Pinheiro juliermeopensourcedeveloper at gmail.com
Wed Mar 20 13:13:15 PDT 2019


Dear Even Rouault,

I got it done. Thank you very much for your reply.

I appreciated your time

Julierme



On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 1:09 PM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> Julierme,
>
> the issue here is that your KML file is seen as a multi-layer dataset, with
> one feature per layer, so you can't use the logic you put below. You need
> to
> merge all the layers in a single one.
>
> You can do that with the ogrmerge.py script that comes with GDAL:
> https://www.gdal.org/ogrmerge.html
>
> $ ogrmerge.py -overwrite_ds -single -src_layer_field_name src_layer -o
> out.shp A_Cycle06.kml
>
> With released versions of the script, this will be very slow. I've just
> pushed a fix to speed that up, so grab:
>
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OSGeo/gdal/master/gdal/swig/python/scripts/ogrmerge.py
>
> Even
>
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>
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