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

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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

In great news for map fans everywhere, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced that it has accepted Google's XML-based annotation system, KML, as a standard.