GoogleEarth

• Keyhole Markup Language (KML)

• Based on Extensible Markup Language (XML)

• KML files can come from Internet servers or files on your computer

• Much more flexible, and complicated than Shapefiles

• Documented at:– http://code.google.com/apis/kml/– Or type “KML” into Google

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3D Analyst• ArcToolbox -> Conversion Tools -> To KML

– Layer to KML• Converts one layer to a KMZ file

– Map to KML• Converts an entire map document (“.mxd”) to a KMZ file

• KMZ is a “zipped” KML

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/namNm15.jpg

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XML

<tag attribute=‘value’/>

<tag>Content

</tag>

<tag>

<nestedtag/>

</tag

Simple KML<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2">

<Document><Placemark>

<name>Simple placemark</name> <description>Description</description> <Point>

<coordinates>-122.0822035425683, 37.42228990140251,0

</coordinates> </Point>

</Placemark></Document>

</kml>