Export mapstruct to KML

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Devinya Herath
Devinya Herath on 13 Jun 2011
I have a mapstruct that contains two points. I want to view these two points in google earth/ For that, I want to export this mapstruct to KML format so that I can view it in Google earth. Please advice on how to do this.

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Rob Comer
Rob Comer on 18 Jun 2011
Exporting point data to KML is supported by the Mapping Toolbox function kmlwrite:
<http://www.mathworks.com/help/toolbox/map/ref/kmlwrite.html>
but it requires point coordinates in a geographic coordinate system (latitude-longitude).
The fact that your data are in an mapstruct implies that they are in a projected coordinate system. Do you know that that system is? If you can create an appropriate map projection structure ("mstruct", not to be confused with "mapstruct"), then you can use the minvtran function to transform your points to a geographic system, and set up a geostruct that's identical to your mapstruct except that it has Lat and Lon fields instead of X and Y fields.
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Devinya Herath
Devinya Herath on 31 Oct 2011
I am sorry I can't understand this mstruct. went through the documentation as well. But still unable to understand it fully. Is it a structure that is used to describe a projection? How can it be created? pls help

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