[Qgis-user] Google earth kml file not opening in Qgis

[Noli Sicad]

Just convert your kml to shapefile, then you can easily open shapefile in QGIS.

You can use OGR2OGR to convert kml to shapefile in FWTools

http://fwtools.maptools.org/

ogr2ogr -f 'ESRI Shapefile' output.shp input.kml


Details in this site:
http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/98/how-can-i-convert-between-kml-and-esris-shapefile-format

Noli


On 7/31/12, Harish <harry.om2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you save as .kmz or .kml from My places?
>
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Harikumar Sivanandan
> <hakucomet at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Sir,
>> I exported a kml file consisting of roads, paths and lines from My places
>> in Google maps. It is opening in Google Earth, but I am not able to open
>> it
>> as a vector layer in QGIS.
>> However I am able to open a Google earth kml file consisting of only
>> points in QGIS. What should I do to open a kml file consisting of lines?
>> With regards
>> Harikumar
>> Kollam, India
>>
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