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

[andrea antonello <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tawan,
I fixed a bug that was indeed in the module and uploaded the plugin again.
The download server is a new one, so please refresh the instructions
page in order to get the right link.

Let me know if it works for you,
Andrea



On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:18 PM, andrea antonello
<andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Tawan,
>
>> 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.
>
> could you supply me the kml you are using to try that out?
>
>> I am going to try it with the M8 version.
>
> It is supposed to work with the rc3 so it probably won't with th m8 also.
>
> I will have a look,
> Ciao
> Andrea
>
>
>>
>> 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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