can shapefile be too complex for KML conversion?

[Nic Vianna]

I have some polygonal data in ESRI shapefile format that is pretty
complex - meaning the line-work is very detailed; curvy; filled with
vertices; and many non-adjacent polygons; all as one entry.

I am trying to convert .shp file to .kml (by the way, using the best
tool I found, which is a commandline function called ogr2ogr provided
from www.gdal.org) but the kml polygons are not shading properly or
some of the them are missing, or something else is wrong... Does
anybody know what's going on here?

[Grok Lobster]

Have you tried MapWindow and the shp2earth plug-in?

On Jan 5, 11:55 am, Nic Vianna wrote:
> I have some polygonal data in ESRI shapefile format that is pretty
> complex - meaning the line-work is very detailed; curvy; filled with
> vertices; and many non-adjacent polygons; all as one entry.
>
> I am trying to convert .shp file to .kml (by the way, using the best
> tool I found, which is a commandline function called ogr2ogr provided

> fromwww.gdal.org) but the kml polygons are not shading properly or