kml / kmz exporter

[s-leger]

Simple kml / kmz gps based path to setup (dji phantom like) drones fly path right in blender.
Does reproject your points in gps coord system on the fly.

Usage:
Select a single curve and choose file->export-> kml / kmz.
Note:
Only export real curve points, so use a normalized curve to achieve desired result.

request #61

[TJRL]

How difficult would it be to write something that imports georeferenced kmz/kml models from sketchup's 3D warehouse? There already is a importer for such files that works well, it only doesnt import the coordinates: https://github.com/heikkisa/blender-import-sketchup
I've just started learning python, so for now its a bit out of my competence to program this. But at some point I intend to make an attempt to write something that does the above. That is, if not someone else will do it.

[s-leger]

This exporter currently only generate a very small and limited subset of the format specifications, and is dev mainly as a simple "mission" planing tool for drones.
Providing full featured kmz/kml will require lot more work, and is definitely out of the initial scope.
As far as i'm aware, there are some old import / export for kml (kmz being a .zipped version) around, so you probably should ask authors, and extend / adapt existing solutions to fulfill your needs.

[domlysz]

That's right, kmz just store 3d models as DAE files embedded into a zip. This pull request only import kml paths not DAE. So the best way to import 3d KMZ is to rely on existing DAE importer, this is what the blender-import-sketchup addon do. I think it must not be too complicated to extend this existing addon to extract the georeference (longitude and latitude of the scene origin)