christophe triquet wrote:
Hi everybody,
I'm trying to translate kml file into another format (postgresql or
shp) with ogr2ogr. I'm working with kml files generated with google
earth or google maps. When I use a kml file as input for ogrinfo or
ogr2ogr, I get an error saying :
FAILURE:
Unable to open datasource `my_file.kml' with the following drivers.
...
and then the list of availables drivers displays.
When I enter : ogrinfo --formats
I get : -> "KML" (read/write)
so it seems that this is well configured.
I've tried to validate my kml with www.kmlvalidator.com and the result
is that there is differences between a file generated by google earth
and the ogr kml format. After correcting the errors found by
kmlvalidator, the validation is successfull but ogr2ogr still doesn't
work (with the same error message).
Does someone have any suggestion to solve my problem ?
Christophe,
Unfortunately OGR does not have a way of knowing for the purposes of
reporting if a driver is "write only". The KML driver is write only if
OGR is not built with support for the XML parsing library used by the
KML driver (expat). So I suspect you need to rebuild GDAL/OGR with
support for the expat library (--with-expat to configure) in order to
get this working.
Even at that there are definate limitations in the KML reading.
Best regards,
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