Google has opened up the long de facto standard for map overlays, the Keyhole Markup Language, making it an official open standard. The Open Geospatial Consortium, an international map standards body, ...

At Caltrans District 7 in Los Angeles, we use the onboard GPS capability of smartphones to navigate in real time to the locations of proposed aerial targets and National Geodetic Survey (NGS) control ...

The Google Maps API Blog announced that Google Earth has added a feature built into the Google Earth application to enable you to search for Keyhole Markup Language (KML) files. KMLs allow developers ...

In this post, we will talk about how to edit KML files in Windows 11/ 10. A KML file, an acronym for Keyhole Markup Language, is a file that is used to store geographical data including location data, ...

So, what are these KML and KMZ files anyway? They are Google Earth’s file format for storing placemarks, network link information, and much more. I won’t go into detail here, since there are excellent ...

According to the Google Earth Blog, Google Earth version 4.3 (free) is coming later today. Among the upgrades and improvements are faster load times for 3D buildings, day/night lighting, new ...