At Dominion University, students are creating teaching material using Google Earth and Google Sketch-up. They’ve included a series of KML files pointing to tectonic plates, mountain belts ...

Google Earth users can now search publicly available Keyhole Markup Language (KML) data files, also known as map layers.

KML, which is the language used to describe layers and placemarks in Google Earth, is not an especially difficult language (it's just XML really) but it can be tedious to create and maintain.

From here, click on KML button to download the file. After downloading the file to your desktop, Google Earth will load it and provide weather forecasts.

Google's installable maps software Google Earth makes KML overlay files that add points of interest, descriptions and photos to your earth, and now you can view those KML files live on the web at ...

The file format developed initially for Google Earth to exchange geographic information and mapping presentations is now an international standard. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) will now ...

The spread of that information has already extended to Google competitor Microsoft Virtual Earth, which has started to include KML files in Live Search Maps.

This could be programmers generating KML through code, people manually creating KML files by hand (a tedious job, but doable), or people getting KML from third party applications.

A quick trick for viewing a KML map file directly in Google Maps without downloading it or opening Google Earth.

If you repeatedly lose your placemarks in Google Earth, the problem could either be an issue with your "myplaces.kml" file or with the way you use the Google Earth application. When you create a ...