Comments on: The Last Word (For Now) On Converting Google Earth KML Files To Shapefiles

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:32:20 +0000

Hello, I’m hving a bit of trouble using this application.

Whenever I open the kml file in the klm2shp main window it shows a view of the extent that’s zoomed way in only one feature (I can only see a small section of a boundary line from a file containing polygons for 89 parks).

I see no way to zoom out to the full extent that would show all the features, so when I convert to shp. it only converts the one line I was viewing before (althugh it keeps atribute data for al 89 features).

Help anyone?

Thanks.

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By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:44:37 +0000

Lovely, only tested it and it seems to work quite well and very user friendly.

By: Denny

Denny — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:23:52 +0000

Cool tool if all you need are point locations, but not very useful otherwise if you need any kind of attributes. If google can read the attributes correctly, why can’t a conversion do this?

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By: ANTON

ANTON — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:28:04 +0000

THANK YOU, GREAT ADVISE, GREAT TOOL, SLIM, SIMPLE, AND TO THE POINT!!!!!!!
EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR.

By: Askan

Askan — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:56:07 +0000

Hi Leszek

Thanks again for a wonderful tip. I used the tool and it worked quite fine for me.

Cheers

Askan.

By: Leszek Pawlowicz

Leszek Pawlowicz — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:03:17 +0000

As of right now, kml2shp doesn’t import any other data from the kml file to the shapefile attribute data table except for the name. I suspect there’s too many ways to enter data in a KML file to make such a converter practical.

Several of the shapefile to KML converters I’ve blogged about have the ability to export attribute data along with the coordinates to the final KML file.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:38:36 +0000

what about other properities of my kml file? i mean html from markers infowindow that could be a set of values. is it possible to transfrom shp with many columns to kml with markups including values from my table?