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A New Web Standard is Born

By Kalena Jordan in Kalena Jordan's Blog
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Google Earth logoToday marks a special event on the web.

According to the Google Blog, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has today accepted KML 2.2 file format as an official OGC Standard. KML began life in Google Earth as a way to save custom map features and developed into a sophisticated format that is used by a large number of widely used mapping platforms.

Google handed KML 2.2 over to the OGC in a bid to provide a higher level of accessibility to geographic-based web content. Bravo Google!

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  • 1. Gary at 16.04.2008 11:38AM:

    If KML 2.2 can get more geographically targeted traffic to my site then it works for me :-)

    Gary
    http://www.midnightlist.com
    Jazz / Swing / Blues

  • 2. Torez at 17.04.2008 3:22PM:

    Bravo Sitepronews!
    really good post
    Many thanks!

  • 3. Wade at 24.04.2008 1:18PM:

    This is great news. It sounds like they’ve dropped their GML format completely. Any news on whether they’re going to integrate KML standards into RSS? i.e. a GeoRSS killer?

    Cheers, great find!

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