Today the Google Maps team announced some important additions to the Google Maps product and its API. According to Nigel Tao, the current version of Google Maps now supports GeoRSS (Simple, GML and ...

Well, this is mostly a Google Maps story, but important nonetheless. It’s also more geared to developers than users. Google has added support in Google Maps for another standard file format called ...

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 ...

Google Maps enables you to create your own maps including custom locations, for example a "Parks" map with marked locations for your favorite parks. The map can be exported to the Google KML format ...

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 developers ...

One of the great features of electronic maps is the ease with which they can present information in its geographical context on-demand. GPS units will now readily let you know where to find your latte ...

At Caltrans District 7 in Los Angeles, we use the onboard GPS capability of smartphones to navigate in real time to the locations of proposed aerial targets and National Geodetic Survey (NGS) control ...

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 ...