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Python code to parse a KML file XML notation) and write data to a CSV table
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| import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET | |
| from datetime import datetime | |
| StartTime = datetime.now() | |
| Tree = ET.parse('Bottles.kml') | |
| root = Tree.getroot() | |
| OutFileName = "Bottles.csv" | |
| f = open(OutFileName, "w") | |
| f.write('bottle_id, time, lat, lon' + '\n') | |
| TotalLineCounter = 0 | |
| for line in root.iter('*'): | |
| if line.tag == '{http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2}description': | |
| TotalLineCounter += 1 | |
| FullString = line.text | |
| BottleName = FullString.split('<b>')[1] | |
| BottleName = BottleName[18:27] | |
| BottleTime = FullString.split('<b>')[2] | |
| BottleTime = BottleTime[18:37] | |
| BottleYear = str(BottleTime[0:4]) | |
| BottleMonth = str(BottleTime[5:7]) | |
| BottleDay = str(BottleTime[8:10]) | |
| BottleHour = str(BottleTime[11:13]) | |
| BottleMinute = str(BottleTime[14:16]) | |
| BottleSecond = str(BottleTime[17:19]) | |
| BottleDayStamp = BottleYear + '-' + BottleMonth + '-' + BottleDay | |
| BottleTimeStamp = 'T' + BottleHour + ':' + BottleMinute + ':' + BottleSecond | |
| BottleCoordinates = FullString.split('<b>')[3] | |
| BottleLon, BottleLat = BottleCoordinates.split(',') | |
| BottleLat = BottleLat[:-4] | |
| BottleLon = BottleLon[14:] | |
| BottleLine = BottleName + ',' + BottleDayStamp + BottleTimeStamp + ',' + BottleLat + ',' + BottleLon | |
| f.write(BottleLine + '\n') | |
| f.close() | |
| print TotalLineCounter | |
| EndTime = datetime.now() | |
| print "Done in: " + str(EndTime - StartTime) | |
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