Reading Time: < 1 min As reported by the Google LatLong Blog, KML has now officially become an OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) standard. According to Google, there are tens of millions of KML documents available online, hosted on over 100,000 unique domain names. The number of files isn’t a huge surprise, but 100,000 unique domains seem like a ton! As […]
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Some good new KML tutorials from Google
Reading Time: < 1 min The Google Earth Blog points us to a few new tutorials about using KML. The first is all about time animations, including the London Eye and Frank Taylor’s Blue Marble. The second deals with using KML in the Google Mashup Editor. The full story in the Google Earth Blog goes into more detail explaining each […]
KML support in Virtual Earth coming soon?
Reading Time: < 1 min According to a post on geothought, Microsoft’s Virtual Earth will be supporting KML in September or October of this year. The implications of this are huge, but it appears there isn’t a solid source on it yet. The author (Peter Batty) heard it in a “vendor spotlight” presentation at the GeoWeb conference in Vancouver, but […]
Microsoft and KML support
Reading Time: < 1 min Whether or not Microsoft’s Virtual Earth will ever support the KML format is becoming an interesting topic. Logic would seem to point to “yes”, but that’s not necessarily the case. This topic was brought up at the “birds of a feather” meeting at Where 2.0 last week (discussed here). Their response was not great. When […]
The state of Google Maps
Reading Time: 2 min It’s been quite a week for Google Maps. Where 2.0 and the Google Developer Day last week brought a flurry of new announcements. I’ll run through them all for you: Driving directions for the API You can now use driving directions on your API maps. Not only can you do full directions, but you can […]