software engineering

Parsing KMZ Track Data in Python

A few days back I stumbled across an interesting problem. I was asked to develop a solution that was doing some analysis work on geolocation data stored in KMZ format. Existing solutions like fastkml (64KB) and pykml (42KB) seemed nice at the first glance, proved to be unnecessary overhead, however. They’re mostly meant to manipulate… Continue reading Parsing KMZ Track Data in Python