Commit 381b24e6 authored by Ian Lee's avatar Ian Lee

Update documentation to reflect more complete feature list. Fixes #25.

parent 1dcb393c
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Fastkml is a library to read, write and manipulate kml files. It aims to keep
it simple and fast (using lxml_ if available). Fast refers to the time you
spend to write and read KML files as well as the time you spend to get
aquainted to the library or to create KML objects. It provides a subset of KML
and is aimed at documents that can be read from multiple clients such as
openlayers and google maps rather than to give you all functionality that KML
on google earth provides.
aquainted to the library or to create KML objects. It aims to provide all of
the functionality that KML clients such as `OpenLayers
<http://openlayers.org/>`_, `Google Maps <http://maps.google.com/>`_, and
`Google Earth <http://earth.google.com/>`_ provides.
Geometries are handled as pygeoif_ or shapely_ (if installed) objects.
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Geometry collection (MultiGeometry). You cannot assign diffrent values of
*Tesselate*, *Extrude* or *Altitude Mode* on parts of a MultiGeometry.
Currently, the only major feature missing for the full Google Earth experience
is the `gx extension
<https://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/kmlreference#kmlextensions>`_.
This will most likely be added after the 1.0 version release.
You can find the complete list of current issues on `GitHub
<https://github.com/cleder/fastkml/issues>`_.
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