read_kml

Reads a Google Earth .kml file into Matlab

Description

Reads in a simple Google Earth kml into Matlab. If you have bought Google Earth Plus, you can digitize 'paths' (lines). This funcion allows you to load one of these saved paths into Matlab. This code extracts lat,lon and z from a kml file.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.3 (R2006b)

[Malcolm Wood]

Nice function. I think you could make it much more robust to mis-placed spaces by using "xmlread" and then the W3C XML-handling classes, e.g.:
>> doc = xmlread(fileName);
>> c = doc.getElementsByTagName('coordinates').item(0);
>> coord_str = c.getChildNodes().item(0).getData();
etc.

[Evan Artis]

Testing it out.

[Erdal Bizkevelci]