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How to read or import a kml file in R
5 messages · Manuel Spínola, Hodgess, Erin, Alex Mandel
Hello Manuel: Not sure what you're trying to do. KML files display in Google Earth & Google Maps. You can create KML files in R but not display them. Hope this helps! Sincerely, Erin
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Dear list members, How to read a .kml file in R. I was reading some threads on this, but I stll don't understand how to do it. The name of my file is "Circuito Tamarindo.kml" Best, Manuel -- *Manuel Sp?nola, Ph.D.* Instituto Internacional en Conservaci?n y Manejo de Vida Silvestre Universidad Nacional Apartado 1350-3000 Heredia COSTA RICA mspinola at una.ac.cr mspinola10 at gmail.com Tel?fono: (506) 2277-3598 Fax: (506) 2237-7036 Personal website: Lobito de r?o <https://sites.google.com/site/lobitoderio/> Institutional website: ICOMVIS <http://www.icomvis.una.ac.cr/>
Well that hardly seems the whole story. rgdal package's readOGR should be able to import kml into an sp object, which can be analyzed or plotted. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2010-May/008370.html I think Erin was confusing it with KMZ files which are a bundle of kml + images(sometimes) that are hard to use anywhere but Google Earth. Though the trick is to just unzip them and use the components individually. Thanks, Alex
On 03/24/2014 11:16 AM, Hodgess, Erin wrote:
Hello Manuel: Not sure what you're trying to do. KML files display in Google Earth & Google Maps. You can create KML files in R but not display them. Hope this helps! Sincerely, Erin
________________________________________ From: r-sig-geo-bounces at r-project.org [r-sig-geo-bounces at r-project.org] on behalf of Manuel Sp?nola [mspinola10 at gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 1:02 PM To: r-sig-geo at r-project.org Subject: [R-sig-Geo] How to read or import a kml file in R Dear list members, How to read a .kml file in R. I was reading some threads on this, but I stll don't understand how to do it. The name of my file is "Circuito Tamarindo.kml" Best, Manuel -- *Manuel Sp?nola, Ph.D.* Instituto Internacional en Conservaci?n y Manejo de Vida Silvestre Universidad Nacional Apartado 1350-3000 Heredia COSTA RICA mspinola at una.ac.cr mspinola10 at gmail.com Tel?fono: (506) 2277-3598 Fax: (506) 2237-7036 Personal website: Lobito de r?o <https://sites.google.com/site/lobitoderio/> Institutional website: ICOMVIS <http://www.icomvis.una.ac.cr/> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo at r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
I didn't realize that readOGR could do that. Very cool! Thanks for the good info.
From: Alex Mandel [tech_dev at wildintellect.com]
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 1:30 PM
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Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 1:30 PM
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Well that hardly seems the whole story. rgdal package's readOGR should be able to import kml into an sp object, which can be analyzed or plotted. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2010-May/008370.html I think Erin was confusing it with KMZ files which are a bundle of kml + images(sometimes) that are hard to use anywhere but Google Earth. Though the trick is to just unzip them and use the components individually. Thanks, Alex On 03/24/2014 11:16 AM, Hodgess, Erin wrote: > Hello Manuel: > > Not sure what you're trying to do. KML files display in Google Earth & Google Maps. > > You can create KML files in R but not display them. > > Hope this helps! > > Sincerely, > Erin > > ________________________________________ > From: r-sig-geo-bounces at r-project.org [r-sig-geo-bounces at r-project.org] on behalf of Manuel Sp?nola [mspinola10 at gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 1:02 PM > To: r-sig-geo at r-project.org > Subject: [R-sig-Geo] How to read or import a kml file in R > > Dear list members, > > How to read a .kml file in R. I was reading some threads on this, but I > stll don't understand how to do it. > > The name of my file is "Circuito Tamarindo.kml" > > Best, > > Manuel > > -- > *Manuel Sp?nola, Ph.D.* > Instituto Internacional en Conservaci?n y Manejo de Vida Silvestre > Universidad Nacional > Apartado 1350-3000 > Heredia > COSTA RICA > mspinola at una.ac.cr > mspinola10 at gmail.com > Tel?fono: (506) 2277-3598 > Fax: (506) 2237-7036 > Personal website: Lobito de r?o <https://sites.google.com/site/lobitoderio/> > Institutional website: ICOMVIS <http://www.icomvis.una.ac.cr/> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo at r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo >
Ya, there are some exceptions. ie Styling is not really supported, though work on the OGR side is in progress on that. Also there are some kml files that merely have urls to some web server where the kml really is (ie exports from Google maps). These notoriously don't work with OGR or other kml engines. The hack is to use google earth to open them and then save them back out to yet another kml that actually has the data (I'm oversimplifying the steps). http://gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html FYI, if you use the Libkml driver you might get more details than the traditional OGR kml drivers. Libkml behaves more like google earth, since it's also written by google. Thanks, Alex
On 03/24/2014 11:38 AM, Hodgess, Erin wrote:
I didn't realize that readOGR could do that. Very cool! Thanks for the good info.
________________________________________ From: Alex Mandel [tech_dev at wildintellect.com] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 1:30 PM To: Hodgess, Erin; Manuel Sp?nola; r-sig-geo at r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] How to read or import a kml file in R Well that hardly seems the whole story. rgdal package's readOGR should be able to import kml into an sp object, which can be analyzed or plotted. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2010-May/008370.html I think Erin was confusing it with KMZ files which are a bundle of kml + images(sometimes) that are hard to use anywhere but Google Earth. Though the trick is to just unzip them and use the components individually. Thanks, Alex On 03/24/2014 11:16 AM, Hodgess, Erin wrote: Hello Manuel: Not sure what you're trying to do. KML files display in Google Earth & Google Maps. You can create KML files in R but not display them. Hope this helps! Sincerely, Erin ________________________________________ From: r-sig-geo-bounces at r-project.org [r-sig-geo-bounces at r-project.org] on behalf of Manuel Sp?nola [mspinola10 at gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 1:02 PM To: r-sig-geo at r-project.org Subject: [R-sig-Geo] How to read or import a kml file in R Dear list members, How to read a .kml file in R. I was reading some threads on this, but I stll don't understand how to do it. The name of my file is "Circuito Tamarindo.kml" Best, Manuel -- *Manuel Sp?nola, Ph.D.* Instituto Internacional en Conservaci?n y Manejo de Vida Silvestre Universidad Nacional Apartado 1350-3000 Heredia COSTA RICA mspinola at una.ac.cr mspinola10 at gmail.com Tel?fono: (506) 2277-3598 Fax: (506) 2237-7036 Personal website: Lobito de r?o <https://sites.google.com/site/lobitoderio/> Institutional website: ICOMVIS <http://www.icomvis.una.ac.cr/> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo at r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo at r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo