[Qgis-user] opening kml files

[Andre Joost]

Am 30.08.2014 08:53, schrieb Innisfree McKinnon:
> Hello all,
> I'm also having an issue opening a .kml file. I downloaded a .kmz file of a
> historic map and would like to open it in QGIS. After reading what I could
> find online, I opened it in Google Earth and saved it as a .kml file. Then
> I went into QGIS and attempted to open it as a vector layer, selecting
> "files of type:Keyhole Markup Language." The title appears under layers,
> but it doesn't actually display. I thought it might be a projection
> problem, so I tried "zoom to to layer" but that doesn't seem to have any
> effect.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated. I could georeference the file myself,
> but since it has already been done, I was trying to avoid duplicating that
> work.
>

The KML driver is designed for importing vector data (points, lines and 
polygons). From your description, the .kml seems to display a raster 
file, therefore nothing gets imported. The same might happen if the kml 
only contains an internet link to the raster file.

You can however look into the kml file with any text editor, and look 
out for georeferencing information. That can be used to build a .vrt 
file, which serves for QGIS as a wrapper the same way as your kml does 
for Google Earth.

Mabe you can provide the dwomload link of the original kmz to help further.

HTH,
André Joost