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<p style="margin:0px 0px 11px"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">When you use QGIS to save a shapefile as KML, the KML file
attribute table has Name, description, timestamp, begin, end, altitudeMode,
tessellate, extrude, visibility drawOrder, and icon fields.</font><span style="margin:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">Including these fields in the shape file
fills these fields in the KML file, but it seems that the KML file itself
stores everything but Name and description as SimpleData in a SimpleField.</font><span style="margin:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">The problem for me is that begin and end don’t
activate the time slider bar when you open the KML file in GoogleEarth.</font><span style="margin:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"> </font></span><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">So, is there any way to get QGIS to produce
this KML statement when converting a shape file to KML:</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 11px"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"><TimeSpan> <begin>1950-01-01</begin>
<end>1970-12-31</end> </TimeSpan></font></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 11px"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 11px"><font color="rgb(0,0,0)" face="Calibri" size="3">I can do this by hand, but it would be great if QGIS would do it. </font><font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3">Thanks for any advice!</font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 11px"><font color="rgb(0,0,0)" face="Calibri" size="3">Mark Polczynski</font></p>
<font size="3"></font><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Mark Polczynski</div></div></div>
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