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, ...

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 ...

Google公司消息，其周一正式放弃了对Keyhole Markup Language（KML）的控制权，开放地理信息联盟（OGC）将接管KML语言，并将“Goolgle Earth”及“Google Maps”中使用的KML语言变为一个国际标准。 Google公司的KML产品经理在博客上表示“从今天起，Google已经不再控制KML”“KML ...

如今大家都知道Google Maps，但是你知道Google Maps的“前传”吗？它并不是Google内部的项目，而是Google收购来的，在那之前，Google并没做出过什么地图相关的成果。而被Google收购来做Google Maps的Keyhole已经成立了5年，经历波澜起伏，业务做的有声有色。 最近，我读 ...

Google is tweaking the mobile version of Google Maps to allow developers to layer information over the application, a feature that it hopes will lead to new uses. The search company released on ...

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 ...

Last night, Microsoft pushed out a ton of new features to Windows Live Maps, including a face-lift to some of its 3-D cities (Las Vegas, Dallas, Denver and Phoenix), the ability to export your ...

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 ...