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.

This post is a tip for people who work with KML a lot and generate KML from sources other than Google Earth. This could be programmers generating KML through code, people manually creating KML ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 Google Maps API Blog announced that Google Earth has added a feature built into the Google Earth application to enable you to search for Keyhole Markup Language (KML) files. KMLs allow ...