[OpenLayers-Dev] OpenLayers.Format.KML.write()

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 04:16:32PM +0200, Damien Corpataux wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to implement a bit of OpenLayers.Format.KML.write() method, and
> enhance OpenLayers.Format.KML.read() to enabl.e Polygon node parsing...
> 
> Questions:
> 1/ Did you have any reason not to have implemented Polygon parsing at
> once with Point and LineString? I thought it could be because of the
> outerBoudaryIs node, which cannot be translated into OpenLayers.Geometry
> object...? Or was it just laziness? :-)

Just laziness.

> 2/ How do you see the namespaces for KML? My view is that one can parse
> any KML as a 2.0, fetching Placemark nodes and digging into their
> geometries, since this seems not to change over versions. Do you think
> it's a good way of doing it?

I didn't know enough about KML at the time I wrote it to know if this
was true or not. I'd be happy to be better informed either way. 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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