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How to covert .kmz file into .zip?

I am using Geoserver for viewing spatial data on Mapstore. In Geoserver,shapefiles in the format of .Zip only accepted.whenever i tried to import the .kmz file into Geoserver it failed.

Is there any way to import .KMZ file into Geoserver ?? (or) How to convert the .KMZ file into .Zip ?

Solution

  • A KMZ file is a zipped KML file so it is already a zip file. However, GeoServer has no KML Datastore implementation and as such can not import KML (zipped or otherwise).

    You will need to convert your KML to a format that GeoServer does support such as a shapefile or database table, ogr2ogr is probably the easiest way to do this.