id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc 5068,GoogleEarth wont read KML files created by ogr2ogr: Unknown element ,Nikos Alexandris,warmerdam,"Any attempt to create/convert a kml file (from a shapefile) using ogr2ogr, e.g. ogr2ogr -f 'KML' SomePoint_from_OGR.kml SomePoint.shp results in a .kml file that Google-Earth, both version 6 (from the Ubuntu 12.10 repositories) and 7 (the ""official"" 64-bit deb package), wont read with the ""excuse"": Unknown element . Moreover, the example over at is rejected by GE with the same error message. It is noteworthy that, removing the instructions altogether, makes the OGR-produced kml files readable. An example that works fine is to be found at (look for the ""Example"" under ""Adding Typed Data to a Feature""). Attached a simple point created in GE (working), exported as kml, converted to ESRI Shapefile successfully using ogr2ogr and converted back to kml (non-working). ",defect,closed,normal,1.10.1,OGR_SF,unspecified,normal,fixed,"ogr2ogr, kml, schema",