kml2geojson 6.0.0

6.0.0, 2026-07-06

• Brought feature extraction to parity with @tmcw/togeojson v7, while keeping this package’s reusable style catalog approach.

• Added StyleMap resolution to the style catalogs, with a style_map_key option to choose the ‘normal’ or ‘highlight’ pair.

• Added LabelStyle and richer IconStyle extraction (color, opacity, scale, heading, hot spot offset) and a new public function build_style.

• Fixed the bug where an IconStyle wiped previously collected line and polygon styles in the same Style element.

• Fixed opacity conversion to divide alpha by 255 instead of 256.

• Added GroundOverlay support for LatLonBox (with rotation) and gx:LatLonQuad via the new function build_ground_overlay.

• Added NetworkLink support (without fetching linked files) via the new function build_network_link.

• Added typed ExtendedData conversion via KML Schema SimpleFields and the new function build_schema.

• Added TimeStamp extraction into a timeStamp property.

• Added extraction of address, phoneNumber, open, and visibility properties, with visibility converted to a boolean.

• Added HTML-flagged descriptions for CDATA description content, following togeojson’s convention.

• Added the new function build_feature_tree to preserve nested KML folder structure.

• Breaking change: track times moved from a times property to a coordinateProperties property, following the geojson-coordinate-properties convention.

• Breaking change: features without geometry are now kept with a null geometry by default; use the new skip_null_geometry option to drop them.

• Breaking change: geometry extraction now considers only direct geometry children of a Placemark, closes unclosed polygon rings, converts bare LinearRings to LineStrings, converts single-coordinate tracks to Points, and skips degenerate geometries.

• Breaking change: convert now returns a dictionary with the key ‘feature_collections’ and, when a style type is given, the key ‘style’, instead of a variable-shape sequence.

• Breaking change: removed the unused GEOTYPES constant and added __all__ to the main module to stop star imports leaking implementation names.

• Added the --style-map-key and --skip-null-geometry options to the k2g command line interface.

• Removed stale test fixtures that reflected the old output format.

5.1.1, 2026-03-12

• Migrated packaging metadata to PEP 621 in pyproject.toml and switch the build backend to Hatchling.

• Updated project URLs to the current repository and documentation site.

• Raised the declared minimum Python version in package metadata.

• Modernized GitHub Actions to use uv and refresh the Python test matrix.

• Updated README installation and documentation guidance.

• Fixed k2g CLI output handling for styled and unstyled conversion paths.

• Restructured tests to use one test function per API function with sectioned behavioral coverage.

• Added CLI integration tests for the no-style and styled separate-folders paths.

5.1.0, 2022-04-29

• Extended convert() to accept a KML file object.

• Added type hints.

• Updated dependencies and removed version caps.

• Dropped support for Python versions less than 3.8.

• Switched from Travis CI to Github Actions.

5.0.1, 2021-10-11

• Re-included the MIT License file and added more metadata to the file pyproject.toml for a more informative listing on PyPi.

5.0.0, 2021-10-07

• Upgraded to Python 3.9 and dropped support for Python versions < 3.6.

• Switched to Poetry.

• Breaking change: refactored the convert function to return dictionaries instead of files.

• Moved docs from Rawgit to Github Pages.

4.0.2, 2017-04-26

• Fixed the bug where setup.py could not find the license file.

4.0.1, 2017-04-22

• Moved the name of a FeatureCollection into a ‘name’ attribute, because RFC 7946 says that a GeoJSON FetaureCollection must not have a ‘properties’ attribute

• Stripped leanding and trailing whitespace from text content to avoid cluttered or blank name and description attribute values

• Switched to pytest for testing

4.0.0, 2016-11-24

• Moved command line functionality to separate module

• Renamed some functions

3.0.4, 2015-10-15

Disambiguated filenames in main().

3.0.3, 2015-10-13

Improved to_filename() again.

3.0.2, 2015-10-12

Improved to_filename() and removed the lowercasing.

3.0.1, 2015-10-12

Tweaked to_filename() to lowercase and underscore results. Forgot to do that last time.

3.0.0, 2015-10-12

Changed the output of build_layers() and moved layer names into the GeoJSON FeatureCollections

2.0.2, 2015-10-12

• Replaced underscores with dashes in command line options

2.0.1, 2015-10-12

• Set default border style for colored polygons

2.0.0, 2015-10-08

• Added documentation

• Tweaked the command line tool options

1.0.0, 2015-10-05

• Changed some names

• Added lots of tests

0.1.1, 2015-10-03

Fixed packaging to find README.rst

0.1.0, 2015-10-03

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