[QGIS-Developer] KMZ Embedded Ground Overlays to QGIS

[Even Rouault]

On vendredi 21 juin 2019 10:50:46 CEST C Hamilton wrote:
> I am thinking about adding support for KML ground overlays in my KML Tools
> plugin. The ground overlay specifies the latitude and longitude of each of
> the 4 corners of the image being overlaid. I think that in order to make
> this work I would need to extract the images from the KMZ file and come up
> with the proper transformation to use with GDAL and create a GeoTIFF of
> each file. The GeoTIFFs could then be loaded into QGIS
> 
> Do you have any suggestions on how to specify the transformation for GDAL?
> 

GDAL has a KMLSuperOverlay driver that can read *some* KML/KMZ formulations 
with ground overlays.

https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/master/autotest/gdrivers/kmlsuperoverlay.py

Even

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