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Answer : Some notes: You'd need an editor which could work with geo coordinates instead of simple X,Y ones. Or you would need to reproject coordinates when converting. Converting from KML to SVG would mean potentially losing KML-specific information which is not stored by the SVG format. Converting from SVG to KML would mean potentially losing SVG styling and other features not covered in KML. GIMP is not a vector graphics editor (AFAIK), you probably mean Inkscape. Other than that, there are quite a few tools which claim to do what you're looking for. Simple as in SVG to KML and KML to SVG? This tool converts Google Earth files(kml and kmz) into vectorial SVG files, usable in Inkscape, Illustrator and other software. kml2svg.free.fr converts most of the elements that contains a GE document: folders placemarks (points, lines, polygones, multigeometries and embeded images) tours Sketchup resources (depending of the resources..) using the desired earth projection: Mercator, Mi...

Answer : You didn't answer the query above, but my guess is that the error is that you're not closing your output file (which would flush your output). f.close() use etree to create your file http://docs.python.org/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html It's included with Python and protects you from generating broken XML. (eg. because fname contained & , which has special meaning in XML.)

Answer : Yes. Inside the .kmz is a file called doc.kml , see wikipedia | Keyhole Markup Language | Structure You can use 7-zip to open the KMZ archive. References: KMZ Files | Recommended Directory Structure or change the file extension to .zip under windows to open with winzip. In unix/linux/osx: cp myfile.kmz myfile.zip unzip myfile.zip cp doc.xml myfile.kml No need for a third party tool. Change the extension to .zip, open and extract the file you want.