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Better KML support #11834

Open ahgera opened 3 years ago

ahgera commented 3 years ago

KML is a popular format mainly used in Google Earth, but also in other apps. OsmAnd has limited support for importing KML files, but there are room for improvement. The most important features IMO is rendering paths in the correct style, i.e. the right color and width. But there are other features that are important or nice to have, depending on your use case, like correct icons on placemarks, polygons, and image overlays. If supported a single KML file can contain the planning for a whole trip, like bike routes, hiking trails, POIs of different varieties (water, lodging, food, museums, etc).

I made a test KML file with different features, this is what it looks like in various apps: Google Earth on desktop: image Locus Map on Android: image And finally, OsmAnd: image

If this feature gets implemented, please consider also supporting .kmz which are KML files and other files in a zip archive. This makes them work fully offline, which is the preferred way of bringing maps with you in remote areas.

KML test.zip

mariush444 commented 3 years ago

it is rather about KMZ and not KML. KMZ contains icon inside. But anyway good idea. @vshcherb it could be combine with https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/11210

mariush444 commented 3 years ago

Icons I found something like workaround for importing/converting icons from google to osmand https://www.mail-archive.com/osmand@googlegroups.com/msg07817.html polygons Workaround - You can convert polygons using Qgis. It is not ideal but possible. Just add vector layer - choose kml file - then generate XYZ tiles and then you see it in Osmand.

image

vshcherb commented 3 years ago

You can also try to convert KML -> OSM (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/KML) and then generate vector map OSM -> OBF

mariush444 commented 3 years ago

about KML -> OSM -> OBF OBF can't be underlay or overlay. Should I generate whole new map for county or region in this case?

vshcherb commented 3 years ago

Today OBF can't be controlled via underlay / overlay they could be controlled only via rendering style parameters on / off. It's much more powerful than just layers.

Though disadvantage you can't quickly enable / disable 1 obf map. We're going to improve it.

mariush444 commented 2 years ago

@ahgera maybe you will find this script in python useful. It translates google icons (stored in kmz) to known osmand's icons. https://github.com/mariush444/gmapIcons2osmand