KML To CSV Conversion — kml_to_csv • glatos

Function for extracting features (points, lines, polygons) from kml files and writing them to csv files.

Usage

kml_to_csv(filePath, type = c("points", "lines", "polygons"))

Arguments

filePath: The pathname for the kml file you wish to convert.
type: Optional character string indicating the type(s) of feature(s) to read from the kml file. Valid values are c("points", "lines", and "polygons").

Value

A csv file (same name as input filePath but with csv extension) is written to directory containing input filePath with five columns

name: Feature name
feature_type: Feature type
seq: Sequential position in feature
longitude: Longitude
latitude: Latitude
altitude: Altitude

Details

kmz files are not supported. Make sure exports from Google earth are saved as kml. Or extract (unzip) kml from kmz.

Examples


# Get example kml with two polygons
kml_file <- system.file("extdata", "example_polygons.kml",
  package = "glatos"
)

kml_to_csv(kml_file)
#> [1] "/home/runner/work/_temp/Library/glatos/extdata/example_polygons.csv"