[Tilecache] Generate tiles from KML

[David Fawcett]

You should be able to use ogr2ogr to convert from KML to shapefile.

http://www.gdal.org/ogr2ogr.html

David.

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Tamlyn Rhodes<tamlyn at tamlyn.org> wrote:
>> I'm not aware of any way to do this. I would make a shapefile, and use
>> MapServer with a Mapfile.
>
> OK, the only reason I chose KML was because I understand XML! Given
> the shapefile data, what free libraries can I use to manipulate them
> (i.e. change the country colours)?
>
> Then, as I understand it, MapServer replaces TileCache and acts as a
> WMS server for use by OpenLayers?
>
> Cheers,
>
>  T.
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