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How to convert KML (Google Latitude) to SHP on Linux?

I downloaded a KML track from Google Latitude. The service allows to download the tracked route from the user's profile providing a link such as: ...
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Projecting shp from GK3 to UTM32 with BeTa2007

I've experimented with projections of shapes, used the official provided grid beta2007 for germany and noticed differences between transforming by double exporting over custom CRS in QGIS and ...
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Should a GDAL Plugin be the same version as GDAL aready built into QGIS

Should a GDAL Plugin be the same version as the GDAL that's aready built into the QGIS version installed? Or,can another different version of GDAL be built and it installed as a Plugin for QGIS, ...
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How did QGIS fix a shapefile's character encoding, and can I do this on the command line with ogr2ogr?

Solved: I'm not sure why, but it works fine if I specify --config SHAPE_ENCODING "ISO-8859-1" in my ogr2ogr command. For whatever reason, this allowed ogr2ogr to go from the original TigerLine ...
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Importing KML in QGIS - what are all the node elements that QGIS looks for other than Name and Description?

Of all elements given at (ref: http://service.kmlvalidator.com/ets/ogc-kml/2.2/) only Name and Description seem to be recognized on importing KML using QGIS 1.8.0-Lisboa. I would like to know if this ...
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Ogr2Ogr doesn't work with QGIS 1.8

I'm trying to use Ogr2Ogr.exe to import some shapefiles. It came installed with QGIS 1.8. When I try and run it, i get the following error: C:\Program Files (x86)\Quantum GIS Lisboa\bin>ogr2ogr ...
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Why are GeoJSON coordinates different exported from QGIS vs. ogr2ogr?

I have a shapefile with a Google Mercator projection (900913) that I need converted to GeoJSON. I need to do this on a regular basis amongst other things so I wrote a shell script to do it using ...
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How to load GeoJSON files directly onto QGIS? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Plugin or script to get QGIS to display geoJSON in a layer Is there a way to do this? Or is there a way i can put it onto PostGIS and then load it onto QGIS? I actually ...