fastkml 1.0a1

Fast KML processing in python

Introduction

Fastkml is a library to read, write and manipulate KML files. It aims to keep it simple and fast (using lxml if available). Fast refers to the time you spend to write and read KML files as well as the time you spend to get acquainted to the library or to create KML objects. It aims to provide all of the functionality that KML clients such as OpenLayers, Google Maps, and Google Earth provides.

Geometries are handled as pygeoif objects.

Fastkml is continually tested

Is Maintained and documented:

Documentation

You can find all of the documentation for FastKML at fastkml.readthedocs.org. If you find something that is missing, please submit a pull request on GitHub with the improvement.

Have a look at Aryan Guptas The Definite Guide to FastKML.

Alternatives

Keytree provides a less comprehensive, but more flexible approach.

Install

You can install the package with pip install fastkml which will pull in all requirements.

Requirements

• pygeoif

• dateutils

Optional

• lxml

You can install all of the requirements for working with FastKML by using pip:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Limitations

Tesselate, Extrude and Altitude Mode are assigned to a Geometry or Geometry collection (MultiGeometry). You cannot assign different values of Tesselate, Extrude or Altitude Mode on parts of a MultiGeometry.

Currently, the only major feature missing for the full Google Earth experience is the gx extension. Please submit a PR with the features you’d like to see implementd.

Changelog

1.0 (unreleased)

• Drop Python 2 support

• Use pygeoif >=1.0

• Drop shapely native support

0.12 (2020/09/23)

• add track and multi track [dericke]

• remove travis, add github actions

• raise error and debug log for no geometries found case [hyperknot]

• protect AttributeError from data element without value [fpassaniti]

• examples and fixes [heltonbiker]

• improve documentation [whatnick]

0.11.1 (2015/07/13)

• add travis deploy to travis.yml

0.11 (2015/07/10)

• handle coordinates tuples which contain spaces

0.10 (2015/06/09)

• Fix bug when the fill or outline attributes of a PolyStyle are float strings

0.9 (2014/10/17)

• Add tox.ini for running tests using tox [Ian Lee]

• Add documentation, hosted at https://fastkml.readthedocs.org [Ian Lee]

0.8 (2014/09/18)

• Add support for address and phoneNumber [Ian Lee]

• Add support for Ground Overlay kml [Ian Lee]

0.7 (2014/08/01)

• Handle case where Document booleans (visibility,isopen) are ‘true’ or ‘false’ [jwhelland]

• test case additions and lxml warning [Ian Lee]

• pep8-ify source code (except test_main.py) [Ian Lee]

• pyflakes-ify source code (except __init__.py) [Ian Lee]

0.6 (2014/05/29)

• add Schema

• add SchemaData

• make use of lxmls default namespace

0.5 (2013/10/23)

• handle big files with huge_tree for lxml [Egil Moeller]

• bugfixes

0.4 (2013/09/05)

• adds the ability to add untyped extended data / named value pairs [Denis Krienbuehl]

0.3 (2012/11/15)

• specify minor python versions tested with Travis CI

• add support for tesselation, altitudeMode and extrude to Geometries

• move implementation of geometry from kml.Placemark to geometry.Geometry

• add support for heterogenous GeometryCollection

• python 3 compatible

• fix test for python 3

• change license to LGPL

• register namespaces for a more pleasant, human readable xml output

0.2 (2012/07/27)

• remove dependency on shapely

• add more functionality

0.1.1 (2012/06/29)

• add MANIFEST.in

0.1 (2012/06/27)

• initial release