[Qgis-user] KML into map

[Alex M]

On 12/31/18 21:41, Phil Wyatt wrote:
> Hi Folks,
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> I seem to remember that you could drag and drop kml's onto the map but this
> no longer seems to work. Does anyone know what has changed? No longer works
> in 2.18 or 3.4.
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> In particular I am looking at live feeds. I can however open the feeds using
> the URL's within the kml via vector/URL etc
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> Cheers - Phil
> 
>

Phil,

The kml you sent is a network linked file, it doesn't contain the actual
data. kml files with the actual data still work in QGIS as expected.

$ogrinfo  gearth.kml "Tasmania Fire Service"
INFO: Open of `gearth.kml'
      using driver `LIBKML' successful.

Layer name: Tasmania Fire Service
Geometry: Unknown (any)
Feature Count: 0
Layer SRS WKT:
GEOGCS["WGS 84",
    DATUM["WGS_1984",
        SPHEROID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563,
            AUTHORITY["EPSG","7030"]],
        AUTHORITY["EPSG","6326"]],
    PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,
        AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]],
    UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433,
        AUTHORITY["EPSG","9122"]],
    AUTHORITY["EPSG","4326"]]
Name: String (0.0)
description: String (0.0)
timestamp: DateTime (0.0)
begin: DateTime (0.0)
end: DateTime (0.0)
altitudeMode: String (0.0)
tessellate: Integer (0.0)
extrude: Integer (0.0)
visibility: Integer (0.0)
drawOrder: Integer (0.0)
icon: String (0.0)

Thanks,
Alex