Example - getting all GroundOverlays

[Graeme Merrall]

Not a very active group but pyKML I have to say is jolly useful.  Website says you'd like examples of KML use. Here's one to pull out all GroundOverlay tag. Will work for most things.  Idea of the greater script is to use gdal to georeference images for "proper" GIS apps instead of relying on overlays. 

root = parser.fromstring(kml_str)

  for x in root.findall(".//{http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2}GroundOverlay"):

    overlay = {}

    overlay['href'] = x.Icon.href

    overlay['north'] = x.LatLonBox.north

    overlay['south'] = x.LatLonBox.south

    overlay['east'] = x.LatLonBox.east

    overlay['west'] = x.LatLonBox.west

    GeorefImage(overlay)

Cheers,

 Graeme

[Tyler Erickson]

I'm glad that you have found it useful.  Having examples that show how to integrate with GDAL or other Python geospatial libraries are indeed welcome, if you can share them.