Wednesday, 3 February 2016

convert - Converting between KML and shapefile (SHP) format?



My users are sending me point data that were digitized using Google Earth.


How can I convert their KML to a shapefile?



Answer



Using the open source ogr2ogr from GDAL/OGR:


ogr2ogr -f 'ESRI Shapefile' output.shp input.kml

As noted in grego's comment below, you may need to use double quotes instead of single quotes for the output format option (e.g. "ESRI Shapefile" for the Windows command line). See also the gdal wiki.


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