Hi Jeff I may well try that! The trouble is I have a stack of attributes in a Access db which I was joining onto the KML data. I need the complete dataset for an ArcGIS Server data service anyway so a shapefile seemed to be a good way to join it all and assist with that (will end up in SDE) and my mapfile dataset too. I had already read the page you mentioned and all is in place (I am using the MS4W PHP/mapscript set-up on IIS) and my original ISO flavoured version labels up nicely - it just breaks some of the query functionality (though it shouldn't - which is why I wonder if some of the characters are badly formed)!
Thanks for the advice Chris Hi Chris, > My quick thoughts are: > - use ogr2ogr (the GDAL/OGR library) to do your conversion from KML to > shp (if you are on Windows, the MS4W product can help you with that > http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?page=downloads.html) > - another option is to use the KML in its native format with MapServer > (http://www.mapserver.org/input/vector/kml.html), which is also possible > with MS4W > - if by "application" problems you mean map label problems with encoded > characters, this howto should help you: > http://www.mapserver.org/mapfile/labelencoding.html > Hope that helps. > -jeff
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