[gdal-dev] What is the status of KML?

Sebastiaan Couwenberg sebastic at xs4all.nl
Tue Nov 25 20:33:02 PST 2025


On 11/26/25 5:28 AM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg via gdal-dev wrote:
> On 11/26/25 12:34 AM, Simon Eves via gdal-dev wrote:
>> Alternatively, Even or whoever, is KML still a thing? How many people are likely to care if we deprecate support for it?
> 
> We keep libkml in Debian for gdal primarily, but goldencheetah also depends on it.

Turns out that GoldenCheetah upstream removed their KML support:

  https://github.com/GoldenCheetah/GoldenCheetah/commit/ecdfe0c4e27878661942e2b87c5346a146ef2ba9

> I would love to get rid of the libkml package.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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