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A bit rusty but here's a script to parse a collection of KML files and pull out all the interesting data
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from xml.dom.minidom import parse | |
def get_label(node): | |
name = node.getElementsByTagName('name')[0] | |
label = name.firstChild.nodeValue | |
return label | |
def get_coords(node): | |
coordinates = node.getElementsByTagName('coordinates')[0] | |
coords = coordinates.firstChild.nodeValue | |
split = coords.split(" ") | |
return split | |
def parse_file(f): | |
dom = parse(f) | |
for node in dom.getElementsByTagName('Placemark'): | |
label = get_label(node) | |
split = get_coords(node) | |
count = len(split) | |
if (count > 1): | |
print '{0} has {1} nodes'.format(label,count) | |
print '\n' | |
from os import listdir, path | |
current_dir = '.' | |
kml_files = [ f for f in listdir(current_dir) if path.splitext(f)[1] == '.kml' ] | |
for f in kml_files: | |
print 'Opening file {0}'.format(f) | |
parse_file(f) |
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