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Importing coordinates from KML / CSV / XLS into XML

szcsongor

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Hi,

I am now planning to place a massive amount of objects with SODE (ambient animated wind turbines), and I have now created a map of all of them in google maps, so I have a list of coordinates in KML (or CSV or XLS, since it's easy to convert it into these).
Is there a tool or way to batch transfer all the coordinates for more than 2500 objects into a SODE-ready XML file?

I know all the parameters and lines I should write in the XML to make them ambient-animated, but copy-pasting all of it by hand would take years :)
 
Ok, I managed to do it with some Excel wizardry. Now I have a 2+ MB xml file with 2500+ objects. All seem fine, no errors, it loads into SODE placer, but when I load up the sim the wind turbines do not show up.
When I only put some of the same objects in a separate xml it worked. Can be that there is an upper limit of objects / xml?

Update: I checked the log now, when I get to an area where there are a lot of objects I get the error message that there are too many environmental data probes (64+). I guess then I have to reduce their number, however I would like to have one individual probe for each turbine, since that determines the wind speed and direction for them. I try to put in one probe / turbine farm then.
An other error I get is "No unique Model determined to display". Does this mean that I have to give an individual name for each and every simobjects? Probes and turbines as well? I have a small test file with more objects going under the same name and they show up so I'm a bit confused...

Update: I think I solved the problems. The names have to be indeed unique, that I corrected. Now when I'm at an area where there are no more than 64 data probes, the turbines show up nicely and work as they should. But as soon as I'm at an area where there are much more, SODE stops working. Now I just have to reduce the number of probes and all will be good.
 
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Nice project! SODE is such a powerful program. Where are these turbines located?
 
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