[Qgis-user] opening kml files

[Innisfree McKinnon]

Thanks Andre. I eventually found directions that made more sense
considering it is a raster. As you said, open the .kml file in texteditor,
look at the coordinates, then put them into the georeferencer in QGIS.
I.


On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Andre Joost <andre+joost at nurfuerspam.de>
wrote:

> 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
>
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