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Background:

At 3.10.5, I have a Geopackage point layer that I wish to export as a KML, and then view in Google Earth. The point layer has a single integer field, id_unique, that needs to display as a label in GE.

I use QGIS "Export > Save Feature As..." to create the KML.

Problem:

I am unable to export a .kml that displays the label from the id_unique field. I have tried all combinations of options in the "Save Features As..." window. When opened in the GE table of contents, the resulting points are always named [no_name], and the map push-pins are not labeled, as shown below.

How do I export a KML that will display a field attribute as a GE label?

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Create a field named "Name", than your exported kml-file will show it as the name of the point and as label on the map besides the pin. Copy the values from the unique-id-field to the Name field, using the field calculator, which you can also use to create the field "Name":

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  • Wow, who would have ever thought? Well, maybe the [no-name] should have been a giveaway, but that never occurred to me. I haven't seen name documented; do you know where you learned that? Thanks!
    – Stu Smith
    May 17, 2020 at 1:16
  • I did not learn it, just a heuristic approch. I just went the other way: I created a named point in Google Earth, saved it as kml and opened that in QGIS to inspect how it looks. So it became clear that creating a file in the same manner should also work "backwards", going from QGIS to GE.
    – Babel
    May 17, 2020 at 8:37
  • Well done, and a good lesson for me.
    – Stu Smith
    May 17, 2020 at 14:45

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