kml2geojson

kml2geojson is a Python 3.4+ package to convert KML files to GeoJSON files. Most of its code is a translation into Python of the Node.js package togeojson, but kml2geojson also adds the following features.

• Preserve KML object styling, such as color and opacity
• Optionally write one JSON file cataloging all the KML styles used
• Optionally create several GeoJSON files of FeatureCollections, one for each KML folder

Installation

pip install kml2geojson

Usage

At the command line type k2g --help for instructions. You can also use kml2geojson as a library.

Documentation

In docs and on RawGit here.

Notes

• Development status: Alpha
• This project uses semantic versioning (major.minor.micro), where each breaking feature or API change is considered a major change

Authors

• Alex Raichev (2015-10-03)

Contributing

If you want to help develop this project, here is some background reading.

• The KML reference
• Python's Minimal DOM implementation, which this project uses to parse KML files

History

4.0.2, 2017-04-26

• Fixed the bug where setup.py could not find the license file.

4.0.1, 2017-04-22

• Stopped making FeatureCollections with top-level 'properties' attributes, because RFC 7946 says that's not allowed. Moved FeatureCollection names into a top-level 'name' attribute.
• Stripped leading and trailing whitespace from text content to avoid cluttered or blank name and description attribute values
• Switched to pytest for testing

4.0.0, 2016-11-24

• Moved command line functionality to separate module
• Renamed some functions

3.0.4, 2015-10-15

Disambiguated filenames in main().

3.0.3, 2015-10-13

Improved to_filename() again.

3.0.2, 2015-10-12

Improved to_filename() and removed the lowercasing.

3.0.1, 2015-10-12

Tweaked to_filename() to lowercase and underscore results. Forgot to do that last time.

3.0.0, 2015-10-12

Changed the output of build_layers() and moved layer names into the GeoJSON FeatureCollections

2.0.2, 2015-10-12

• Replaced underscores with dashes in command line options

2.0.1, 2015-10-12

• Set default border style for colored polygons

2.0.0, 2015-10-08

• Added documentation
• Tweaked the command line tool options

1.0.0, 2015-10-05

• Changed some names
• Added lots of tests

0.1.1, 2015-10-03

Fixed packaging to find README.rst

0.1.0, 2015-10-03

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