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I have a KML-file (available here). It has several polygon paths for Alos/Palsar images.

I am in need to convert all these files from KML to shapefile, saving the layers using the layer "ID".

I am trying to use the piece of code bellow (PyQGIS), but I do not know how to unzip this KML and save the shapefiles using the layer "ID" information

vlayer = QgsVectorLayer("D:/KML-Images/A_Cycle06.kml", "line", "ogr")

writer = QgsVectorFileWriter.writeAsVectorFormat(vlayer, "D:/KML-Images/<layer ID>.shp", "utf-8", None, "ESRI Shapefile")
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  • A_Cycle06.kml isn't a zip file, it looks like a regular KML (XML) file.
    – nmtoken
    Commented Mar 18, 2019 at 15:52
  • Hi @mmtoken, but even though the tasks bellow are not doing the right convertion vlayer = QgsVectorLayer("D:/KML-Images/A_Cycle06.kml", "polygon", "ogr") writer = QgsVectorFileWriter.writeAsVectorFormat(vlayer, "D:/KML-Images/A_Cycle06.shp", "utf-8", None, "ESRI Shapefile")
    – HelpOverFlow
    Commented Mar 18, 2019 at 17:13

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Run QGIS 3.4 and higher,

then Layer> Add layer> Add vector layer choose path> add see figure 1.

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Then select files in parts, just don’t choose to select all,

see result figure 2,

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they are grouped, then save to *.shp

I think that the problem of processing the grouped file you provided is *.KML is that each individual file has a field value of ID = 1, which causes the program to "hang", perhaps something else ...

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