[Sebastiaan Couwenberg] > Are you sure qgis supports opening KML?
Yes. > When I open one of the example KML files from libkml-dev with qgis it > shows an Invalid Data Source error. Right. The KML file I work on was detected as such, and qgis showed the point placemarks (but not the MultiGeometry/Polygon placemarks :). This make me believe qgis understand KML at a useful level. Looked for official documentation on qgis and kml, but failed. <URL: http://maps.cga.harvard.edu/qgis/import/kml/ > provide some insights, though. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen