Yes, we need to develop some more documentation. If you want to use libkml in your app, we are answering questions on it in the KML Developer Forum: http://groups.google.com/group/kml-support.
BSD license tends to be pretty liberal, that's why we used it. On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Clay, Bruce <bc...@ball.com> wrote: > > LibKml can do the in memory file and a lot of other things but the > documentation / examples are rather thin. There is documentation that tells > you what the parameters of a call are supposed to be but not to tell you when > to use a given method. They have several test apps but for the most part > they only test a single class at a time. > > For example, I am trying to set the attributes in a kml message. The > leverage expat to do a lot of the xml stuff and the attributes seem to relate > directly to the expat attributes and not to the way they are used when OGR > creates a KML file. > > There are very few examples shown when I Google on the web for examples. > > All in all it looks quite capable but it takes a bit of digging to find out > how to do things. > > Then there is the licenses issue. I can use it in my app without problems > but using it in an open source GDAL plug-in may be an issue. > > Bruce > > -----Original Message----- > From: gdal-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org > [mailto:gdal-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mano Marks > Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 3:13 PM > To: Mateusz Loskot > Cc: gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] in memory KML > > Seems like libkml would be a good candidate for handling KML in memory. > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Mateusz Loskot <mate...@loskot.net> wrote: >> Frank Warmerdam wrote: >>> >>> Clay, Bruce wrote: >>>> >>>> After a bit more digging I am not sure I asked the right question. >>>> >>>> >>>> What I want to do is read feature information from a shapefile or other >>>> data source and get a string that contains the feature information encoded >>>> in KML that I can pass directly into Google Earth. I know I can do this >>>> operation is I open the shapefile write the KML data to disk then open the >>>> kml file up with fopen then read it into memory and send it t Google Earth >>>> but I would like to save the disk write the read operation. >>>> >>>> >>>> Any thoughts? >>> >>> Bruce, >>> >>> I've skimmed the KML driver and there is no sign that it uses the VSI*L >>> API for file access, so I don't see any way you can write results to a >>> memory buffer without substantial recoding in the kml driver. >> >> >> Looks like a candidate for proposal for the GSoC 2009 >> >> Best regards, >> -- >> Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net >> _______________________________________________ >> gdal-dev mailing list >> gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev >> > > > > -- > Mano Marks > Geo Developer Advocate > http://twitter.com/ManoMarks > Join me for Google I/O, Google's biggest Developer Conference, in San > Francisco, May 27th and 28th, 2009 > http://code.google.com/events/io/ > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > > > > This message and any enclosures are intended only for the addressee. Please > notify the sender by email if you are not the intended recipient. If you are > not the intended recipient, you may not use, copy, disclose, or distribute > this > message or its contents or enclosures to any other person and any such actions > may be unlawful. Ball reserves the right to monitor and review all messages > and enclosures sent to or from this email address. > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > -- Mano Marks Geo Developer Advocate http://twitter.com/ManoMarks Join me for Google I/O, Google's biggest Developer Conference, in San Francisco, May 27th and 28th, 2009 http://code.google.com/events/io/ _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
