| Re: putting data into .kml (google earth) from IDL [message #57997] |
Wed, 09 January 2008 21:03  |
dcleon@gmail.com
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Registered: November 2007
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On Jan 9, 2:43 pm, mccre...@gmail.com wrote:
> Ok, thanks! That's a fairly basic slice of what I am trying to do,
> it's only a ground overlay. But it's something!
>
> So, i've begun this and intend to continue as i need it. I am working
> on implementing Features and polygons as a first shot. My goal is to
> take a spatial time series and be able to display it in google earth,
> simply stripping the data from an array or structure and putting it
> into the various objects along with the needed kml information. In the
> end, it should be way faster than writing kml since all the tags will
> be generated.
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> If anyone is interested in these routines, post here and I'd be happy
> to share them. Once some of the basic ones (like Feature) are
> implimented I can see the rest of the elements being added as people
> need them and write them in to this developing framework of code
> (which is still slowly coming into focus)
>
> cheers,
>
> J
>
> On Jan 9, 2:04 pm, "Jeff N." <jnett...@utk.edu> wrote:
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>> On Jan 9, 2:48 pm, james-a-roo <james.mccrei...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> Hello-
>
>>> I'm thinking about undertaking some work to be able to take data
>>> structures or arrays in IDL and visualize them in google earth. The
>>> idea is to build an object orient set of codes which will write the
>>> data into .kml files.
>
>>> Has anyone begun this or thought about it? I'm going over the .kml
>>> specs and making some headway, but i clearly dont have then entire
>>> picture yet. I have a small goal of getting some (extruded to the
>>> ground) polygons working in the very near future.
>
>>> thanks,
>
>>> jlm
>
>> Mike Galloy has some user functions written for sending data from ENVI
>> into Google Earth via KML files. You might be able to take the
>> portion of his code that deals with writing KML files and use that as
>> a starting point.
>
>> http://michaelgalloy.com/category/envi
>
>> Jeff
I wonder if IDL's XML routines could be used to accomplish this.
Unfortunately I haven't used the XML routines beyond the most
rudimentary.
Has anybody here worked much with the various XML routines ?
Dave
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