[Qgis-user] opening kml files

[Innisfree McKinnon]

Oh thanks! That is really helpful since this is probably something I will
want to do again in the future. And I need to improve my scripting
skills/knowledge.
Cheers,
Innisfree


On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>
wrote:

> 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
>
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