[Qgis-user] Shapefile to kml for DJI Pilot, planning your drone mission in QGIS.

[Nicolas Cadieux]

Hi,

I have sent a file for testing.  It looks simple enough,  simpler than 
the default KML exporter even when styling is removed.  For now, this 
using KMLTOOLS requires two extra steps.  The first is to make sure 
there is only one polygon per file (my script make a single kml file for 
each polygon found in each of the input shp files), the second is the 
unzip extraction from the kmz as the export to kml is not an option.  I 
guess both could be added as options in the plugin.  Unfortunately, for 
this project, the use of QGIS was not permitted :(  Users must use a 
proprietory products for protocol reasons (I will let you guess which 
one!!!).  So my solution is this the best way to do it given these 
unfortunate circumstances.  I will contact the kmltools developer when I 
hear back from the drone pilot as this would good options to have in 
QGIS for other projects.

Thanks for the input.

Nicolas

On 2021-11-15 2:59 p.m., C Hamilton wrote:
> Have you tried the KML Tools plugin to export the data? You probably 
> don't want to export the style and a number of the other attributes 
> are optional. I am not sure how well it would work for this 
> application, but it will be different from the default QGIS KML exporter.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Calvin
>
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 1:03 PM Nicolas Cadieux 
> <njacadieux.gitlab at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>     Hi everyone,
>
>     Some of you flying drone missions might have noticed that DJI
>     Pilot, does not like .KMLs created in anything else than Google
>     Earth. When exporting the most basic kml from QGIS, the resulting
>     kml still has too many tags for the DJI software.
>
>     I created an OpenSource python software to batch export your
>     mission planning files from ArcMap and QGIS to DJI Pilot kml.
>
>     The video explains the advantages of using a true GIS over Google
>     Earth to plan your missions, shows how to use the software and how
>     to setup your Python environment. You can go to my gitlab page to
>     download the script.
>
>     https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzr-zP5wG1g&fbclid=IwAR3f6F_5fgxmZuy6mbM_zavW_6rtnW7oeT482wAeJ7WdEhJMovqEMmNDtTM
>     <https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzr-zP5wG1g&fbclid=IwAR3f6F_5fgxmZuy6mbM_zavW_6rtnW7oeT482wAeJ7WdEhJMovqEMmNDtTM>
>
>     Enjoy!
>
>     Nicolas Cadieux
>     https://gitlab.com/njacadieux
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Nicolas Cadieux
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