How to convert kml to shape format throught ogr2ogr
You can create your kml file online with scribblemaps and download it to your computer. If you create lines and markers in the same file, you will get this error: ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" file.shp file.kml -skipfailures Warning 6: Normalized/laundered field name: 'description' to 'descriptio' Warning 6: Field timestamp create as date field, though DateTime requested. Warning 6: Field begin create as date field, though DateTime requested. Warning 6: Field end create as date field, though DateTime requested. Warning 6: Normalized/laundered field name: 'altitudeMode' to 'altitudeMo' ERROR 1: Attempt to write non-point (LINESTRING) geometry to point shapefile. ERROR 1: Attempt to write non-point (LINESTRING) geometry to point shapefile. ERROR 1: Attempt to write non-point (LINESTRING) geometry to point shapefile. To avoid it, you must create separated files for points, linestring or polygon as: ogr2ogr point.shp point.kml -skipfa