topic Re: Map and KML question in App Development

Map and KML question

jochem_zw — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 20:14:32 GMT

Why does the attached KML load as the screenshot, i want the field gemname instead of the P1

Re: Map and KML question

Sun, 22 Mar 2015 17:08:14 GMT

Hi Jochem,

I had a similar issue some months ago. It had to do with the formatting of the KML itself. Please review the process you are using to generate the KML. It may be different format with a KML extension and is not properly formatted for KML.

Good Luck,

Arun

Re: Map and KML question

Patrik_Lundblad — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 07:50:42 GMT

Hi Jochem,

In your KML file there is no name for the area, hence p1 is automatically assigned.

If you open up your KML in a texteditor you can add in the line <name>Gemname</name> after the Placemark> tag.

Re: Map and KML question

jochem_zw — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 08:43:05 GMT

Hi Patrick,

thnx i see this is the problem.

What i did is open a ESRI shape file in QGIS and exported to KML

QGIS created the file as displayed only much bigger (5Mb). Is there a tool from Qlik, or other tool, which can do this better because now i have to manually edit the file to add all the Municipality (Gemname) names.

Re: Map and KML question

Patrik_Lundblad — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:57:03 GMT

In QGIS there is a field for export to KML that you need to fill in.

It's called NameField and as a standard it has the value "Name". You need to change that value to the name of the column that you want from the shape file. Then the KML file will have a <name> tag inside with the value you want.

Re: Map and KML question

jochem_zw — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:20:29 GMT

That did the trick!