When I save Google Earth polygons or lines and look at the file, the first point of the line or polygon has no coordinate and a phony projected coordinate. Check if that is an issue for you. I don't know why that happens on my system here, but a work around for me is to create a token first point and delete it then with a program like garmin dnr (it's free) in case of lines or in the case of polygons copy the last point into the space of the first point. I don't know if this is your issue, but again this happens regularly in my system if I save GE layers. Jake
-----Original Message----- From: qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Alex Mandel Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 7:36 PM To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Google maps kml file won't open On 02/25/2012 03:45 PM, Jel Coward wrote: > Ubuntu 10.04 > QGIS 1.7.4 > > kml file exported from google maps > > When I try opening with QGIS I get > > The layer...../Pemberton Medical Clinic area2.kml is not a valid > layer and can not be added to the map > > > Any thoughts from the here gathered wise folks please? > > > I am still a complete nube.....so please accept my apols if the there > is something obvious that I should be doing that I am not doing :) > > > Cheers > > > jel > Often times if the kml is downloaded from Google Maps, it's not the actual data but only a link to the real data which is hosted online. An easy way to check is to open the kml in a text editor, it will be quite short and obvious if the actual x,y data is in the file. See http://sites.google.com/site/gmapstips/export-my-map-as-kml for more information. If this isn't the issue and the data is public and you can point us to a copy to test that would be great. Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ 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
