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Google Maps Mobile and KML

2 Comments Published by Mike August 18th, 2006 in KML, User Experience

Those of you with unlimited data transfer on a supported phone will definitely want to be keeping track of Google Maps Mobile.
It’s particularly cool that GMM now supports a very limited KML. You only get the first nine points in the file, but it does let you see them.
Update: These are screenshots of Google’s online […]

Parks KML Explained

1 Comment Published by Mike August 10th, 2006 in KML, PHP, Regex, XML

Yesterday, I demonstrated a KML file of Ontario Parks. Although this approach has some fairly serious limitations over a full mashup, the portability and ease of deployment make it an excellent choice in some situations.
In this article, I explain how the techniques used to generate the Ontario Parks KML. These are general-purpose tools that could […]

Ontario Parks in KML

1 Comment Published by Mike August 9th, 2006 in KML

One of the things mentioned briefly in the book is the KML data format.
I really like KML. It’s an XML standard for representing groups of markers, contents of info bubbles, and geometric paths. It’s intriguing, because it’s all the data of a mashup without the mashup itself: You simply prepare the KML file, enter […]