[Qgis-user] styling a KML/KMZ file using QGIS?

maning sambale emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 18:49:33 PDT 2011


You can use the qgis2google plugin, but I don't think it can extrude
polygons as shown in the link you provided.

http://gis-lab.info/qa/qgis2google-eng.html

You need to compile  from source if you use linux or mac.

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Ryan Dalton <ryankdalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if QGIS (or any plugins) allow you to "style" a layer
> (shapefile in my case), and then export the shapefile and style into a
> KML/KMZ that will allow the user to open the KML/KMZ in Google Earth and see
> the layer symbolized the same way that it looked in QGIS.  Whenever I export
> to KML and load into Google Earth, I only get the online boundaries in a
> single color.
>
> Example, unique colors of US States where each state is a different color.
> It looks like the Shape2KML tool does this, but I'm wondering if this type
> of function has been implemented in QGIS.  See examples here for a better
> visual:
> http://www.zonums.com/shp2kml.html
>
> Thanks.
>
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