[GRASS-dev] problem with reading KML

[Anna Petrášová]

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
> On lundi 5 février 2018 10:04:25 CET Anna Petrášová wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I ran into a weird problem with KML with 3D line, v.import failed when
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>> reprojecting it:
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>> WARNING: pj_transform() failed: latitude or longitude exceeded limits
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>> This happened with GRASS 7.4.0 64bit (GDAL 2.2.3) on Windows 10, on my
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>> Ubuntu with latest GRASS it works (GDAL 2.2.1). Weird thing is that I
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>> installed the same version of GRASS on Windows 10 virtual machine and
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>> there it worked without problems.
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> I can indeed replicate with the LIBKML driver on Windows (probably by libkml
> itself), and this is specific to this combination. From testing, it appears
> that the presence of newline+tabulations without spaces between coordinate
> triplets is the cause of the issue, where libkml doesn't detect properly the
> start of the x coordinate of the new triplet and mangles it with the z of
> the previous one.
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> As a workaround, you might define OGR_SKIP=LIBKML as configuration option to
> exclude the LIBKML driver and use the "old" KML one that has not that issue.
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> Or edit the file to replace tabulations by spaces.
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Thank you for the analysis, I created a ticket for that
https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/7231

Anna

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