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 ...

Recently I've written a couple quick hacks to extract data from Google Earth kml files and while I've been able to do what I want in relatively quick order, I've always had to delete the <kml> tags ...

Last year, soon after we created our map of 3D areas, we had fun using the KML to show you the areas covered by country and US state. Now that we have released a timeline version of our KML file it is ...

Microsoft has released a new version of Virtual Earth (2D and 3D) tonight (see press release). I’ve already written about the really nice new Bird’s Eye support which now works in the 3D view. Buried ...

Google Earth displays aerial views of Earth geography, annotated with markers denoting locations. It enables you to locate customer or vendor addresses, identify competitors' locations, map out and ...

At Caltrans District 7 in Los Angeles, we use the onboard GPS capability of smartphones to navigate in real time to the locations of proposed aerial targets and National Geodetic Survey (NGS) control ...