Re: [udig-devel] Status of GML and KML Support

[andrea antonello <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tawan,
at some point I wrote a plugin to support some vector formats. It
should work with the latest udig:
http://jgrass.wiki.software.bz.it/jgrass/Vector_Import_Export_Plugin
It doesn't have any dependency on JGrass, if that is the next question :)

Also it is not a kml datastore, it converts the kml to a temporary
feature layer, which then you might want to save.

Hope that helps,
Andrea



On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Tawan Banchuen
<t.banchuen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks.  Glad to know that I did not do anything wrong.  It's just not supported for now.
>
> Too bad GML and KML are not on the top of the list for our project, otherwise I would volunteer to do it.  If I have the luxury of teaching my students Java (teaching them Python at the moment), I will attempt to assign that as their project.  Not sure whether they can figure out though.  :-(
>
> Cheers,
> Tawan
>
>
> On 14/06/2010, at 12:39 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>
>> In open source the near future is never safe; as projects run on volunteer effort. :-) There exists both GML and KML parsers in the library we use, GeoTools. But we have no volunteers scheduled to bring this functionality into uDig at this time.
>>
>> Sorry!  I would expect it to be about a weeks work; something that could be cut down a lot if there were people around able to test each day.  Doing an import and export wizard would also work and be only a couple of days.
>>
>> Jody
>>
>> On 14/06/2010, at 9:08 AM, Tawan Banchuen wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jody and Andrea,
>>>
>>> I am picking a open format to teach to my students how to compose a geospatial dataset.  I will ask them to visualize the result with uDig, so it has to be a format that uDig supports.  From the messages I have read, it seems that you guys are the authority on the issue of GML and KML support in uDig (and the rest of the issues most likely :-)).
>>>
>>> According to this post, is it safe to say that uDig will not be supporting GML in the near future?
>>>
>>> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/UDIG-1473
>>>
>>> Is KML support in uDig 1.2 RC3 yet?  Andrea, you talked about supporting KML last year:
>>>
>>> http://udig-devel.19327.n5.nabble.com/kml-import-export-td19384.html#a19384
>>>
>>> I just installed it, but I could not open the attached KML file, which is an example from Google.
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot guys,
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Tawan
>>>
>>> <KML_Samples.kml>
>>
>>
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