[Qgis-user] opening kml files

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 30-08-14 08:53, Innisfree McKinnon wrote:
> 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.

Have a look at this article:

http://www.qgis.nl/2014/07/10/qgis-processing-scripts-gebruiken/?lang=en

it is about writing a little processing script to do exactly what you
propose.

Regards,

Richard