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

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 ...

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 ...

According to Nigel Tao, the current version of Google Maps now supports GeoRSS (Simple, GML and W3C Geo) formats -- to import a GeoRSS file, simply "search" for the URL of one. Give this link a shot.

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.

Table of Contents Google has added support for its KML (Earth) format and the open GeoRSS format to the Google Maps API.

[UPDATE Sept. 1: Google has released the official list of locations (and KML file) with new or updated imagery – see here.] Yesterday, a couple of people sent me links to a Google KML file that ...

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.

Someone has put up a nifty free Google Maps mashup called KML Writer which let’s you draw a path or a polygon which can then be written into a KML file (GE file). Simply move the map to a ...

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