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

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 Google Earth custom maps features that allows you to view KML files, is extremely powerful and has now been added to mobile devices in Google Earth 6.2 for Android and iOS smartphones and tablets.

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 ...

But, Google has been gradually releasing more support, so hopefully these limitations will get fixed in the future. Google Earth itself is probably the easiest application to create many KML files.

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.

On your second computer, just double-click the KML file in your cloud folder. It will open Earth with all of your placemarks. This isn’t a perfect solution.

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.

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 ...