You are probably experiencing a tesselation problem. Here is a polygon template I normally use for filling complex polygons in GE. Note the tesselation attribute, and how to use it.<br><br><Polygon><br> <extrude>0</extrude>
<br> <altitudeMode>clampToGround</altitudeMode><br> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><tessellate>1</tessellate></span><br> <outerBoundaryIs><br> <LinearRing><coordinates></coordinates></LinearRing>
<br> </outerBoundaryIs><br></Polygon><br><br><Style><br> <LineStyle><br> <color></color><br> <width></width><br> </LineStyle> <br> <PolyStyle><br> <fill>1</fill>
<br> <color></color><br> </PolyStyle><br></Style><br><br>-Lennox<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bryan Keith</b> <<a href="mailto:bryan@geomega.com">
bryan@geomega.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello,<br><br>I have a shapefile with a single record, a polygon shape. I tried
<br>attaching the shapefile to this e-mail, but the server didn't like it.<br>I'll gladly e-mail the shapefile to anyone who's willing to look into<br>this. It's ~722KB. I can convert the shapefile to kml like this:
<br><br>ogr2ogr -f kml testblm_py.kml testblm_py.shp<br><br>When I look at the kml in Google Earth, it looks fine. The outline of<br>the shapefile shows up as a red line which, I guess, is the default for<br>ogr2ogr kml output. However, I want to see filled polygons so I replace
<br>part of the "style" line in the kml like this:<br><br>cat testblm_py.kml | sed "s/<fill>0<\/fill>/<color>ff37d9f0<\/color>/" ><br>testblmfill_py.kml<br><br>The shaded area does not show up correctly in Google Earth. It shows up
<br>as lots of vertical striped areas within the polygon.<br><br>My actual workflow is a fair bit different from what I've described<br>here, but I've tried to boil the problem down to a simple example. I<br>realize, however, that this polygon is not simple. I'm processing over
<br>10000 land ownership polygons in Utah, and I'm only having a problem<br>with a few of the big, complicated polygons.<br><br>I'm wondering if it might be a problem with the line length in the kml,<br>but I'm not sure. I'm still doing some testing. Any ideas are appreciated.
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