Importing KMLs - no point names

Subsea4life

This should be simple but I can't figure it out. When I drag and drop a KML into my project, the <Placemark><name> is not pulled into the layer attributes. Is there a way of seeing this information in the attribute editor so I can add point labels?

bmg_mike

Can you provide a sample (either here or to geohelp@bluemarblegeo.com)? I would expect the <Name> field to become the display label of the feature. This would is a special 'attribute' that should still show in the Attribute Editor as the <Feature Label> field.

Thanks,

Mike

Global Mapper Guru

Subsea4life

It gets imported like this... no name info.

Subsea4life

@bmg_mike Any update on this Mike?

bmg_mike

Can you provide a sample KML/KMZ file that demonstrates this issue? You may have to zip it up to attach it here.

Thanks,

Mike

Global Mapper Guru

Subsea4life

test.zip

Thanks Mike, Sure thing, see attached.

bmg_mike

I just looked at your file, and it seems that the Point features do have names, it is only the lines which have no name. This makes sense as the <Placemarks> that define the lines have <name></name>, so no name, while the points do have names.

      <Placemark>
        <name></name>
        <styleUrl>#segment0</styleUrl>
        <LineString>
          <gx:altitudeMode xmlns:gx="http://www.google.com/kml/ext/2.2">clampToSeaFloor</gx:altitudeMode>
          <coordinates>130.821466224955,25.8715681382228 145.468760029565,25.3887184712628</coordinates>
        </LineString>
      </Placemark>

It looks like everything is reading correctly to me.

Thanks,

Mike

Global Mapper Guru

Subsea4life

Thanks Mike,

Interesting. It looks like the program generating the KMLs has recently changed it output formatting. Is there an easy way to set up multiple label layers similar to Google Earth?

bmg_mike

In Global Mapper, you could right-click on the loaded KML layer and split into layers by some attribute. Then you could just turn the layers on and off.

Mike

Global Mapper Guru