I've just had a look inside the "kml" and it doesn't actually have any GIS data at all; just the URL of the map in Google Maps. This made me facepalm a little bit. Next step? Track down an actual datafile to try importing!
Geofrey Sanders Weather Call Customer Care geof...@weathercall.net voicemail: 1 (800) 260-6695 On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 14:31, Jamie Adams<jaad...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm using osgeo4w QGIS 1.2 and can open KML okay, though it wasn't exported > from maps. Have you tried KML from another source? > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Geofrey Sanders > <weathercallmaph...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'm trying to pull a custom Google Map into QGIS with a view to adding >> in additional data like county boundaries, however I've been unable to >> add the file as a vector layer, getting the 'not a valid or recognized >> data source' message. I'm importing from a .kml file saved from the >> Google Maps web interface. >> >> I'm running QGIS 1.1.0, installed from the OSGeo4w package manager. >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated, as it really seems like I >> should be able to use KMLs without hassle... >> >> -gws >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
