KML, the HTML of geographic content
Posted by Michael Weiss-Malik, KML
Product Manager
HTML has completely transformed our world. Through the web, a
previously inconceivable amount of information is now just a few
keystrokes and mouse clicks away. What makes this possible is the
fact that web browsers, web servers, and many other pieces of
Internet infrastructure all speak the same language. Because of
Internet standards like HTML, any web browser can view any web
page. Internet standards are what makes the web a flourishing
marketplace.
Today, a new standard was born: The
href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/" id="pi6e" >Open Geospatial
Consortium
official OGC Standard.
as a file format for
to save out the list of restaurants or parks or hiking trails that
you might have drawn as a custom map. It's since matured into
something much larger, and is supported on a wide variety of
mapping platforms produced by a range of companies. You can even
view KML on your
id="mxzf" >cell phone! There are tens of millions of KML files
available online — a testament to just how much user-generated
content is now map-based information.
Mapping has come a long way from the origami paper creations of the
past. Our choice to give KML to the OGC is part of our strong
commitment to open standards. It's our belief that KML's
standardization will do much to make more geographic-based content
accessible online.
There's more on KML's standardization on
the
Lat Long blog
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