[Community] shapely.kml functionality

[Sean Gillies]

On Mar 26, 2009, at 9:59 AM, Danny Shevitz wrote:

>> Potentially round out the trip with
>>
>>>>> placemark = keytree.placemark(id='...', geometry=shape,
>> name='...')
>>
>
> I'm not sure of the best way to do this, but this is absolutely useful
> and what I need. I am working with geometries using Shapely and I  
> want to
> render the output into KML.
>
> Since KML is just XML, I'm currently rolling my own KML using  
> ElementTree,
> but it sure seems like someone could do something useful for once  
> and for all
> that would take geometries and help constuct the KML file via a  
> functional API
> without having to mess directly with ElementTree.
>
> Just a pipe dream... (along with ElementTree pretty printing...)
>
> thanks,
> Danny

Well, there's always libkml, but I prefer ElementTree.

I just upload keytree 0.2 to PyPI and the README has an example of  
creating KML elements for the ElementTree API from geojson and Shapely  
objects.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/keytree/0.2

Sean

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