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 ...

Here is a quick trick that I have found useful on all sorts of occasions. KML files are “Keyhole Markup Language” files which contain geographic information for display in software such as Google ...

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 ...

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 has released a version 6.2 update for its Google Earth app on iOS and Android devices. The update brings a bunch of new features to the mobile version of the popular mapping app. Among those is ...

As part of the recent Google Maps redesign, the ability to export your map to KML was mistakenly removed. According to a post in the Google Maps support forum, the feature will be added back in to ...

Google has rolled out a new update to their Android Google Earth application for mobile devices this week which has brought with it a number of new features, including support to now view custom maps.

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 format ...

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 ...

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 ...