X-Git-Url: http://gitweb.michael.orlitzky.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=bin%2Fwkt2kml;h=598fb52f8d930ace785ced75361bfb2fe65e0bf2;hb=6b6ceef74da38db0c706c5b8eb8d3dfbd83bd536;hp=77f888754ab17770e9fd265f2d99ba2ac83d0482;hpb=935a6ead0912829a7e0f153aa7aac7494977e69c;p=dead%2Fcensus-tools.git diff --git a/bin/wkt2kml b/bin/wkt2kml index 77f8887..598fb52 100755 --- a/bin/wkt2kml +++ b/bin/wkt2kml @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@ #!/usr/bin/env python """ -Convert an OGC Well-Known Text[1] string to a Keyhole Markup Language +Convert an OGC Well-Known Text string to a Keyhole Markup Language (KML) file. """ """ -We take a Well-Known Text string as input, and optionally a filename -to which to write the output. While we shouldn't technically *need* -access to a PostGIS database to perform this conversion, it makes -everything a lot easier, so we require it. +We take a Well-Known Text[1] string as input, and optionally a +filename to which to write the output. While we shouldn't technically +*need* access to a PostGIS database to perform this conversion, it +makes everything a lot easier, so we require it. There is prior art[2] (written in Perl) should we ever desire to do the conversions correctly, sans-database.