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 ...

This repository contains a single index.html file. This file is a self-contained, client-side web application that converts Google Maps Timeline data (from a JSON export) into KML (Keyhole Markup ...

The geoxml3 project is an effort to develop a KML processor for use with Version 3 of the Google Maps JavaScript API. This API is specifically designed to be lightweight and modular; accordingly, it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last night Google announced improved support in Google Maps for more sophisticated KML files. In particular, KML files which use network links whose content in based on your current view are now ...

There are confirmed reports in a Google Maps Help thread that Google Maps KML support is not currently working. What are KML files? KML, or 'Keyhole Markup Language', is an XML grammar and file format ...

[UPDATE Sept. 1: Google has released the official list of locations (and KML file) with new or updated imagery – see here.] Frank Taylor started the Google Earth Blog in July, 2005 shortly after ...

If you are using GPS from the beginning of the journey, you can leave a bicycle rut on the map with quite high accuracy. If there is no GPS log, it will take a bit of trouble, but by drawing a line on ...

Google has added support for its KML (Earth) format and the open GeoRSS format to the Google Maps API. I’m not a programmer, but what this means as a practical matter is that the GeoRSS standard gets ...