On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 4:16 AM, David Carnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been looking to see what it the easiest way to get KML into
> GeoServer, and I wanted to check to see if the best option is still to
> use ogr to first convert the KML into another format that GeoServer
> currently handles and then import that?
Yes, that's the best way. XML based format make for a really poor input
source,
they cannot be indexed and are slow to read compared to shapefiles and
spatial databases.
> I see that there are options to
> output KML (http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/KML+Support), and the last
> posts on this topic were in 2009 so I'm not sure if the ogr route was
> still the only/best option. And if it is, there is no way to capture
> any styling in the KML file into a SLD (or otherwise get it into
> GeoServer), correct?
>
Nope, in GeoServer data and style are separated, there is no way to mix
them.
That said, if someone was interested and had enough resources to spend on
this,
it would be possible to both upgrade the GeoTools data model to support
"per feature" styles
and create a data store that can read XML files from disk, including KML
ones
Cheers
Andrea
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