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KML is now an international standard

April 14, 2008

As reported by the Google LatLong Blog, KML has now officially become an OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) standard.
According to Google, there are tens of millions of KML documents available online, hosted on over 100,000 unique domain names.  The number of files isn’t a huge surprise, but 100,000 unique domains seem like a ton!
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Tons of new features in Virtual Earth

April 11, 2008

To go with the new ClearFlow traffic, Microsoft has just released a slew of new features for Virtual Earth.  They include:

Export collections to GPS using KML, GPX and GeoRSS.
Improved 3D cities.  Las Vegas, Dallas, Denver and Phoenix are now in “version 2″, which includes higher-res textures, more buildings and even rendered tress.  Other cities will [...]

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Some good new KML tutorials from Google

October 30, 2007

The Google Earth Blog points us to a few new tutorials about using KML.
The first is all about time animations, including the London Eye and Frank Taylor’s Blue Marble.
The second deals with using KML in the Google Mashup Editor.
The full story in the Google Earth Blog goes into more detail explaining each of those KML [...]

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Google Maps with KML NetworkLink support!

October 17, 2007

I’ve been waiting for this.  You can now supply a KML to Google Maps that contains a network link based on a view boundbox and it will work similar to how it does in Google Earth – with no editing needed!
They supply the examples of Panaramio, Placeopedia, Wikimapia and some others.  I’ve whipped up some [...]

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KML support in Virtual Earth coming soon?

July 28, 2007

According to a post on geothought, Microsoft’s Virtual Earth will be supporting KML in September or October of this year.
The implications of this are huge, but it appears there isn’t a solid source on it yet.  The author (Peter Batty) heard it in a “vendor spotlight” presentation at the GeoWeb conference in Vancouver, but no [...]

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Microsoft and KML support

June 3, 2007

Whether or not Microsoft’s Virtual Earth will ever support the KML format is becoming an interesting topic.  Logic would seem to point to “yes”, but that’s not necessarily the case.
This topic was brought up at the “birds of a feather” meeting at Where 2.0 last week (discussed here).   I liken their response to if we [...]

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The state of Google Maps

June 3, 2007

It’s been quite a week for Google Maps.  Where 2.0 and the Google Developer Day last week brought a flurry of new announcements.   I’ll run through them all for you:
Driving directions for the API
You can now use driving directions on your API maps.  Not only can you do full directions, but you can capture each [...]

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