We’re clearly big fans of the KML/KMZ format here at Google Earth Blog. It’s an amazing (and simple) way to share complex geo data with anyone that you wish to share it with. In fact, many of our ...

Google Earth was released in June, 2005, but the story of it begins well before that. Keyhole, Inc was formed in 2001 and created a product called “Earth Viewer” — essentially an early version of what ...

Hello! This is the first time I've ever posted to Ars. I hope this is in the correct section. I run our company Website (through an outside vendor's CMS) and we have several KMZ/KML files used with ...

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 ...

Based on data collected from New Zealand’s GeoNet website from Saturday morning’s 7.0 earthquake near the country’s second largest city, Christchurch, a reader of the unofficial Google Earth Blog, has ...

A KML file is a file that represent the locations and shapes of places on our planet Earth. Businesses and researchers use them to track points of interest, from potential store locations to the ...

Just a quick post here on Christmas Eve as Mr. and Mrs. Claus do the last minute present wrapping. We discovered that perennial holiday favorite, NORAD, and their Santa Tracking, have gone 3D this ...