Here is a quick trick that I have found useful on all sorts of occasions. KML files are “Keyhole Markup Language” files which contain geographic information for display in software such as Google ...

June 13, 2006 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Google's installable maps software Google Earth makes KML overlay files that add points of interest, descriptions ...

I went on a little dirt bike ride the other day (that’s “dirt bike” with an internal combustion engine, not a pedaled mountain bike). Instead of describing where it was and telling you how the road ...

Well, this is mostly a Google Maps story, but important nonetheless. It’s also more geared to developers than users. Google has added support in Google Maps for another standard file format called ...

[UPDATE Sept. 1: Google has released the official list of locations (and KML file) with new or updated imagery – see here.] Frank Taylor started the Google Earth Blog in July, 2005 shortly after ...

Last month I shared one of my favorite recipes on tracking local search data with Google Analytics for wordpress. This month I figured that one of the most uncovered and “uncooked” areas in local ...