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KMZ Elevation to DWG or CSV

  • November 22, 2018
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salwan

Dear Sirs,

 

I would like to extract elevation from a KMT or KMZ file from Google Earth! to use them in Autodesk Civil 3D (to DWG file).

Is that possible? I was looking and reading about the Google files inside the FME Knowledge center, but I couldn't find any topics which lead to the answer to my question!

I am very new to FME and this is my first time to use FME. I hope someone can help me with it. Thank you so much for your attention and your help.

Wishing you a wonderful day.

Kindly regards

Salwan Abbosh

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danilo_fme
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  • November 22, 2018

Hi @salwan

 

I believe thatyou can use the transformer CoordinateExtractor:

Parameters:

 

This transformer generate attributes: x,y and z.

 

Thanks,

Danilo

 


salwan
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  • November 22, 2018

Dear Danilo,

Thank you so so much for your response. I will follow your steps and I believe I will be on the right track.

Again very appreciate your help.

Have a nice day

Kindly regards

Salwan Abbosh


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  • November 22, 2018

Dear Danilo,

Thank you so so much for your response. I will follow your steps and I believe I will be on the right track.

Again very appreciate your help.

Have a nice day

Kindly regards

Salwan Abbosh

Excellent @salman

Have you a nice day too


salwan
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  • November 22, 2018

Dear Danilo,

I am afraid I need some help (my apology for disturbing you). I have done the following:

I have saved a selected area (using polygon) in google earth

I saved the file as KMZ ( the size of the file was very small about 657byets)

I created a new reader, I attached the google file to it with the needed coordinate system to the reader

The file contains NO Z value!

What am willing to realize, is to strip all the Z value from a large area on google earth

But it seems for me unclear how to put this issue together. I am very new for FME and this is my first use

I hope that you have some tips to manage that

Thank you so much for your help

 

Kindly regards

Salwan


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  • November 23, 2018

Dear Danilo,

I am afraid I need some help (my apology for disturbing you). I have done the following:

I have saved a selected area (using polygon) in google earth

I saved the file as KMZ ( the size of the file was very small about 657byets)

I created a new reader, I attached the google file to it with the needed coordinate system to the reader

The file contains NO Z value!

What am willing to realize, is to strip all the Z value from a large area on google earth

But it seems for me unclear how to put this issue together. I am very new for FME and this is my first use

I hope that you have some tips to manage that

Thank you so much for your help

 

Kindly regards

Salwan

Hi @salwan

 

Could you share here your kml file to investigate better?

Thanks,

Danilo


salwan
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  • November 23, 2018

My Project XYZ.kmz

My Project XYZ.kml

Dear Danilo,

Thank you so much for your response very very appreciated. Here are the 2 Google Earth KML, KMZ files.

Thank you so much

Salwan


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  • November 23, 2018

My Project XYZ.kmz

My Project XYZ.kml

Dear Danilo,

Thank you so much for your response very very appreciated. Here are the 2 Google Earth KML, KMZ files.

Thank you so much

Salwan

Hi @salwan

Thanks yours files.

I open the files in FME Data Inspector and there are polygons in 2D.

In GoogleEarth = Do you want to get the Buildings inside your Polygons:?

 

I believe that is necessary to use the API for Google Earth to integrate with the features from GoogleEarth, using Python libraries - PythonCaller:

https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/

 

Thanks,

Danilo


salwan
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  • November 23, 2018

Dear Danilo,

Millions of thanks for each moment that you spent on helping me. I don't want the building Z value but the profile of the roads and the existing Ground. I would like to extract the Z value to implement directly to civil 3d DWG drawing to create a surface which I can use to set up my model on it.

 

Regards,

Salwan

 

 


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  • November 23, 2018

Dear Danilo,

Millions of thanks for each moment that you spent on helping me. I don't want the building Z value but the profile of the roads and the existing Ground. I would like to extract the Z value to implement directly to civil 3d DWG drawing to create a surface which I can use to set up my model on it.

 

Regards,

Salwan

 

 

Hi @salwan

No problem! :) Thanks.

In my opinion is necessary to try to do this with API in Google Earth.