How to view GML files?
Terry Pinnell
me, for an imminent holiday in Canada:
http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/index.html
But they are in .GML format (Geography Markup Language?). I changed
that extension to .KML and tried to open in Google Earth, but that
failed. How do I proceed to view them please?
--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK
Terry Pinnell
Same question for 'ESRI Shapefiles', SHP. Is there a freely available
program that will let me view those please?
RsH
http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/features/gml/topten.html
They should open automatically in your browser, without the need for
any software.
RsH
RsH
geomannie
<terrypi...@THESEdial.pipex.com> writes
HI Terry
You need Global Mapper which will open just about all file formats.
The full version is $299 but the free demo will allow you to open and
view up to 4 files (as I remember) simultaneously.
Cheers
--
geomannie
Terry Pinnell
Well, what happens here if I drag say LCC2000-V_072E_1_0.gml into
Firefox is that I get a message:
"This XML file does not appear to have any style information
associated with it. The document tree is shown below."
And the browser displays:
<LCC2000-V:FeatureCollection
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.safe.com/gml2 LCC2000-V_072E_1_0.xsd">
-
<gml:boundedBy>
-
<gml:Box srsName="LLCSRS">
<gml:coordinates>-112,48.9966635 -110,50</gml:coordinates>
</gml:Box>
</gml:boundedBy>
etc (hundreds of lines)
Terry Pinnell
Thanks both. I've now installed that and a few other programs that
open SHP files.
However, as I said in my other post in the thread 'OT: How to open SHP
(Shapefiles)?', it turns out that the *content* of my downloaded SHP
files wasn't worth the effort. Here's a typical example:
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s247/terrypin999/SHP-Example-LCC2000-V_084P_1_0.jpg
BTW, if anyone else has used that GeoBase site I'd be interested to
know your views. After persisting for most of the day, I'm finding it
virtually unusable. Apart from its rather obscure UI, it's glacially
slow at every refresh. I have yet to get a single combination of a
target area (say 10 miles square) with all the other elements you
expect on a walking map - like clearly identified names of places,
rivers, lakes, mountains, etc. And for a fortnight's holiday I need
about 13 such maps.
Carl Reed - OGC
wrote:
Terry -
I would guess that .gml is Geography Markup Language, although as XML
schema, the extension Should be a valid XML extension.
That said, there are any number of viewers - free and for fee - in the
market that will display any valid GML file (as long as a particular
version is supported).
Just search for "gml viewer" using your favorite search engine. Same
for .shp files.
Regards
Carl Reed
OGC
Jorge Fonseca
wrote:
> geomannie <downiegeon0spam.co.uk@downie#n0sapm#.co.uk> wrote:
> >In message <kamr45pgf13vjh3ftst0iaef2f8klmg...@4ax.com>, Terry Pinnell
> ><terrypinDEL...@THESEdial.pipex.com> writes
> >>Terry Pinnell <terrypinDEL...@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:
>
> >>>I've downloaded various free maps from this site just recommended to
> >>>me, for an imminent holiday in Canada:
> >>>http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/index.html
>
> >>>But they are in .GML format (Geography Markup Language?). I changed
> >>>that extension to .KML and tried to open in Google Earth, but that
> >>>failed. How do I proceed to view them please?
>
> >>Same question for 'ESRI Shapefiles', SHP. Is there a freely available
> >>program that will let me view those please?
>
> >>--
> >>Terry, East Grinstead, UK
>
> >HI Terry
>
> >You need Global Mapper which will open just about all file formats.
>
> >http://www.globalmapper.com/
>
> >The full version is $299 but the free demo will allow you to open and
> >view up to 4 files (as I remember) simultaneously.
>
> >Cheers
>
> Thanks both. I've now installed that and a few other programs that
> open SHP files.
>
> However, as I said in my other post in the thread 'OT: How to open SHP
> (Shapefiles)?', it turns out that the *content* of my downloaded SHP
>
> BTW, if anyone else has used that GeoBase site I'd be interested to
> know your views. After persisting for most of the day, I'm finding it
> virtually unusable. Apart from its rather obscure UI, it's glacially
> slow at every refresh. I have yet to get a single combination of a
> target area (say 10 miles square) with all the other elements you
> expect on a walking map - like clearly identified names of places,
> rivers, lakes, mountains, etc. And for a fortnight's holiday I need
> about 13 such maps.
>
> --
> Terry, East Grinstead, UK
Helllo Terry, treat with GvSig it's a free software GIS
http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=gvsig0&L=2
regards
john.robe...@gmail.com
John Forbes
GradIEAust