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I am trying to compress a KML file using gzip on a Linux system
gzip -cvf somefile.kml > somefile.kmz
When I go to try and verify the new KMZ file in Google Earth, I receive the following error:
Open of file "somefile.kmz" failed: Parse error at line 1, column 0: not well-formed (invalid token)
What happened?
Shout-out to @Vince for the help:
Terminal Code
zip -9 somefile.zip somefile.kml
mv -f somefile.zip somefile.kmz
-9 is for best zip compression
This process can also be optimized by running:
zip -9 somefile.kmz somefile.kml
gzipandzipoutputs are not equivalent formats. KMZ requireszip– Vince Mar 4 '19 at 16:27