[FWTools] convert postgis data to kml

[Shad Keene]

I think I'll give the one-step process a try...sounds like there are many ways to do this but I will attempt what seems to be the simplest.  Thanks for your suggestions.
Shad




Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 01:22:30 +0200
From: sfkeller at gmail.com
To: shadkeene at hotmail.com
Subject: Re: [FWTools] convert postgis data to kml
CC: fwtools at lists.maptools.org

You can either use pgsql2shp from directory pgsql/bin, and then use OGR (from GDAL/OGR/FWTools) to convert to KML
or you try it in one step like this using FWTools:
% ogr2ogr -f "KML" neighborhoods.kml PG:"host=myhost user=myloginname dbname=mydbname password=mypassword" -sql "select gid, name, the_geom from neighborhoods"

See http://www.bostongis.com/PrinterFriendly.aspx?content_name=ogr_cheatsheet
-- Stefan
 
2008/4/2, Shad Keene <shadkeene at hotmail.com>:

Hi,
My goal is to display various shapes(polygons, points, linestring) on google maps by using data entered into a postgis database.  I was looking for a way to do this that used the spatial structure already provided in postgis(already designating if shape is a linestring or polygon, etc) instead of parsing out the coordinates and then re-entering spatial structure in google maps.  I saw that google maps api is now compatible with kml data formats.  And then I read that FWTools can convert postgis data to kml format.  

I've done some reading in the forums about the actual process of converting postgis data to kml via FWTools, but didn't see anything that would help me.  I'm new to kml but am familiar with postgis and perl language.  Is there a tutorial for the process of converting postgis data to kml?  Where can I get started?  Thanks for any help,

Shad







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