Keyhole Markup Language
Notation for expressing geographic annotation and visualization within Internet-based maps / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Keyhole Markup Language (KML) is an XML notation for expressing geographic annotation and visualization within two-dimensional maps and three-dimensional Earth browsers. KML was developed for use with Google Earth, which was originally named Keyhole Earth Viewer. It was created by Keyhole, Inc, which was acquired by Google in 2004. KML became an international standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium in 2008.[1][2] Google Earth was the first program able to view and graphically edit KML files, but other projects such as Marble have added KML support.[3]
Quick Facts Filename extensions, Internet media type ...
Filename extensions | .kml , .kmz |
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Developed by | Keyhole, Inc., Google |
Type of format | GIS file format |
Extended from | XML |
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