[Qgis-user] trouble importing a .kml from Google Maps

[Geofrey Sanders]

I've just had a look inside the "kml" and it doesn't actually have any
GIS data at all; just the URL of the map in Google Maps. This made me
facepalm a little bit. Next step? Track down an actual datafile to try
importing!

Geofrey Sanders
Weather Call Customer Care
geofrey at weathercall.net
voicemail: 1 (800) 260-6695



On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 14:31, Jamie Adams<jaadfoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using osgeo4w QGIS 1.2 and can open KML okay, though it wasn't exported
> from maps.  Have you tried KML from another source?
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Geofrey Sanders
> <weathercallmaphelp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to pull a custom Google Map into QGIS with a view to adding
>> in additional data like county boundaries, however I've been unable to
>> add the file as a vector layer, getting the 'not a valid or recognized
>> data source' message. I'm importing from a .kml file saved from the
>> Google Maps web interface.
>>
>> I'm running QGIS 1.1.0, installed from the OSGeo4w package manager.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated, as it really seems like I
>> should be able to use KMLs without hassle...
>>
>> -gws
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