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

[Tawan Banchuen <t.banchuen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andrea,

I put the plug-in in the 'plugins' folder of my udig RC3 and RC2 installation.  The KML import wizard throws an error.  Only the dwg and dxf 	imports seem  to be working.  

I am going to try it with the M8 version.

Tawan

On 14/06/2010, at 7:09 PM, andrea antonello wrote:

> 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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