kmlqgisqgis-plugins
has had anyone had any luck with the new experimental plugin qgis2kml?
I keep getting the error msg layer : format not yet supported
I had a look but the author has not provided any documentation, although I can't access the author's homepage at the moment.
I tried different projections, but other parts of the error message refer to symbology.
You can use the MMQGIS plugin. (http://michaelminn.com/linux/mmqgis/). In the Menu "Import/Export". select the option "Google Maps KML Export". It works for me. You need to keep in mind that if you are converting a polygon with a lot of vertex, Google Earth will not be able to visualize it properly.
For the record. An example of a Python function using OGR2OGR outside QGIS of a OSGEO QGIS dist. I used in a disk walk finding 900 shape files in recursive directories and uploaded to PostGIS with no error. To simplify the code I removed some GUID table naming to avoid duplicate table names.
def upload_to_db(shpfile):
"""
Uploades shape files to PostgreSQL with org2ogr
:param shpfile: Shapefile to upload to database
:return: None
"""
dbname = 'mydb'
schema = 'myschema'
host = 'xx.xx.xxx.xx'
user = 'myuser'
password = 'mypw'
port = '5432'
tablename = f'{os.path.basename(shpfile)}'
# https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/pg.html
command = f"""SET PGCLIENTENCODING=LATIN1 && ogr2ogr -f "PostgreSQL" PG:"host={host} dbname={dbname} user={user} password={password} port={port}" "{shpfile}" -nln {schema}.{tablename} -lco geometry_name=geom -lco precision=NO -nlt promote_to_multi -a_srs epsg:25832"""
#print(command)
os.system(command)
Best Answer
PlanetGIS has always been easiest for me when I want to export files as KML. You can download a trial version of PlanetGIS here: http://www.planetgis.co.za/ Once you have installed PlanetGIS and opened a .shp, go File---> Export ----> Select the file you want to export, then select the destination folder and name it (remember to select KML or KMZ from the dropdown menu). You then have the option of exporting the file as a single placemark or with attributes. Unfortunately, if you select only some of the attributes, it exports all of them anyway. It also allows you to select a display label, which is useful.