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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

InSite Elevation Pro users can export KMZ files to third-party mapping applications like Google Earth, Map Plus and other geo-browsers with jobsite data. Original PDF or CAD file data can be overlaid ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...