[Qgis-user] add a gml layer

[Burgholzer,Robert]

I too am having a bit of difficulty with a GML layer.  I am pulling a
rainfall forecast from NOAA WFS service via Mapserver, and then trying
to load the resulting GML file into QGIS, but it tells me that:

"C:\images\maps\forecast.gml is not a valid or recognized data source"

Any info would be appreciated,

Robert W. Burgholzer
Surface Water Modeler
Office of Water Supply and Planning
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
rwburgholzer at deq.virginia.gov
804-698-4405
Open Source Modeling Tools:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/npsource/

-----Original Message-----
From: qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Nikos Alexandris
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 12:15 PM
To: Tara Athan
Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org; qgis-community
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] add a gml layer

On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 09:11 -0700, Tara Athan wrote:
> I am attempting to add a gml layer to the QGIS dataset that will be
used 
> in the next release of the QGIS manual (v 1.0).
> I took the lakes.shp shapefile from the existing dataset and used
ArcMap 
> to convert to gml (sorry, I couldn't figure out any other way.)
> The resulting layer loads into ArcMap OK, although it complains about 
> the spatial reference, but when I try to load it into QGIS
> 
> (Click Layer -> Add Vector Layer, then select the file and the type 
> [OGR] Geography Markup Language (*.gml) )
> 
> I get the error
> 
> ... is not a valid or recognized data source
> 
> The file is available here:
> 
>
http://www.alt2is.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_downlo
ad&gid=4&Itemid=42
> 
> I don't know if the problem is with the file, the software or the 
> procedure. If anyone has or knows how to create GML files that work
with 
> QGIS, I am willing to use that, as long as it is in Alaska, as that is

> the region of our dataset.
> 
> Thanks, Tara


Tara,

I think ogr2ogr supports GML files. Why not trying to convert with it?


ogr2ogr --formats | grep GML
  -> "GML" (read/write)

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