May 2017
Beginner to intermediate
328 pages
7h 17m
English
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Importing KML
As usual, we'll start with the dataset's metadata checkup:
ogrinfo 2.5_day_age.kml
The output shows that there is more than one layer:
INFO: Open of `2.5_day_age.kml' using driver `LIBKML' successful. 1: Magnitude 5 2: Magnitude 4 3: Magnitude 3 4: Magnitude 2
Therefore, in order to review metadata for each layer at once, the following command should be used:
ogrinfo 2.5_day_age.kml -al -so
The output of the previous command is rather longish, so we'll truncate it a bit and only show the info for the first layer:
INFO: Open of `2.5_day_age.kml' using driver `LIBKML' successful. Layer name: Magnitude 5 Geometry: Unknown (any) Feature Count: 2 Extent: (-101.000100, -36.056300) - (120.706400, 13.588200) Layer SRS WKT: ...Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
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