Closed diVineProportion closed 5 years ago
For static objects or flight recording?
Both? Just to be clear, we are only speaking in terms of import right? I was looking over the acmi documentation to get a feel for everything made available to me to make use of and came across KML files. When grabbing some stuff off the internet (believe it was a marked airport locations i.e. static objects) I noticed that some were KMZ instead of KML, and that tacview couldn't import the KMZ until I had decompressed it to KML. This is less of a 'something does't work' and more of a 'could this make tacview better'
as txt.acmi files are to zip.acmi files, kml files are to kmz files
simply is a compressed version. KML's are usually distributed across the net as compressed KMZ files, so since tacview can uncompress zip/zip.acmi, was thinking it could do this same for kmz. Right now tacview can open kml but not the compressed kmz
sorry if it was confusing earlier
Hi, this is on our to-do list! It is taking longer than expected because it is a different data flow which does not pass by the zip unpacker.
ahh, apologies as I assumed this was standard zip. I was only suggesting to try to make tacview better, not that I needed this feature hahah.. so put it to the back of the list lol!
You are right, KMZ are zip archives. It is just that the module which manage static objects in Tacview does not know how to load multiple kml files recursively. That’s why this feature require more programming than it seems.
Since KMZ is simply compressed KML, maybe add support?