[Paraview] Best way to handle KML data in ParaView

[Mason, Michael (IS)]

Hello,

I have a KML file that defines the trajectory of a balloon as it ascends through the atmosphere and eventually descents back to the ground.  It's encoded with the latitude and longitude coordinates at various points along the way.  It also contains time stamps for each latitude, longitude location.  I have a NetCDF file that contains wind data that I've already been able to load into ParaView.   I'd like to visualize the balloon's trajectory as it passes through the wind data set, if possible.

What is the best way to get the KML information into ParaView?  I'm running on Linux and/or OSX (whatever works best!).  Perhaps the conversion process is a multistage operation (KML -> Shapefile -> ???), that's OK.  If anyone could just tell me the tools and the file formats used, that would be great.

Thank you very much for your time,
-Mike