Using KML Directly

[#1]

Is there a geo library that can work with KML for Java and Hadoop and/or Spark?

[#2 · Accepted solution]

http://www.gdal.org/ogr2ogr.html works but would lose any extra information in the XML

Big Collection of Tools

https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/

GIS Tools

http://esri.github.io/gis-tools-for-hadoop/

Java Library for GEO

https://github.com/mraad/Shapefile

Hive Spatial

https://github.com/Esri/spatial-framework-for-hadoop/wiki/Hive-Spatial

Cool Tool, but no KML

http://terraformer.io/