[GRASS-user] v.in.ogr driver for .kml

[Hamish]

> Jorge:
> > Does any body know, whether there is a driver for importing .kml
> > data into GRASS?

Matthew Perry wrote:
> OGR has a driver for KML but it is write-only at this time. So
> v.in.ogr will not work with KML.
> 
> One alternative would be to convert the KML into a shapefile and
> import that into GRASS. I wrote up a rough methodology for this
> conversion at http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=3 .


maybe gpsbabel's KML filter could be used to convert into a usable
format? vector read+write support in there:
  http://www.gpsbabel.org/capabilities.html


Hamish