This is a forked version of libkml

It was imported from https://code.google.com/p/libkml

The primary motivation for the fork is the lack of alternatives to the libkml library. Most of the open source GIS projects use it, notably GDAL, OSSIM, OTB and osgEarth. The development of the libkml project has been shelved by Google without any publicly stated reason so far.

Contacting the libkml maintainers on code.google.com failed to get a response. Google copied the project from code.google.com to GitHub and the GitHub repository was a little more active in terms of commits for a short while. Via the GitHub issue [https://github.com/google/libkml/issues/4] (Project status#4) another attempt to get feedback from Google was made, but other than the discussion between Bas Couwenberg and Rashad and a comment by Simon there was no response from anybody else. Because of that the decision was made to attempt to revitalize the libkml project with a fork on GitHub.

The choice for maintaining a fork instead of submitting Pull Requests to the google/libkml repository was made because the lack of response from Google makes the pull requested route unlikely to succeed.

The libkml project was imported from code.google.com using their Export to Github tool and then all commits from google/libkml and rashadkm/libkml were merged.

All issues from code.google.com have also been imported, thanks to GoogleCodeExporter tool.