Alternate Download options.
I would like to recommend an alternate Download option for the site data, if possible to add : .kml format.
Thank you.
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We don't work with KML ourselves, but it feels like a reasonable feature to ask for since it's very commonly used. It also seems like it could be implemented without a lot of effort.
Since this is a bit of a side project for us I can't promise that it will be done soon. But it definitely seems like something that we will at least look into, and likely implement as well.
We have now tried to implement KML, together with some other formats. Sadly it seems like we'll have to give up KML.
To be honest we don't know how to render KML output from PostgreSQL/PostGIS properly. PostGIS' ST_AsKML() doesn't create the meta data in the file, just the polygon part. We can't figure out how to make each Polygon element in their own Placemark, and even less add elements for data such as name.
If anyone can tell us how to do it we will bring this topic up again, until then it won't happen.
Good news today. Half a day after deciding this won't happen we found and managed to implement a solution.
In our development environment one can now download KML files as well. The amount of meta data included is a bit restricted right now, for example the all-tags from OSM won't be included. The rendered KML has been tested successfully with Google My Maps.
Expect a release in 1-2 weeks.
Good news today. Half a day after deciding this won't happen we found and managed to implement a solution.
In our development environment one can now download KML files as well. The amount of meta data included is a bit restricted right now, for example the all-tags from OSM won't be included. The rendered KML has been tested successfully with Google My Maps.
Expect a release in 1-2 weeks.