Following is a submission to our “$100 for 300 Well-Chosen Surveyor Words” contest. To submit your own surveyor’s story, send 300 (or more) words to editor@gpsworld.com. By Jay Satalich, P.L.S. At ...

This could be programmers generating KML through code, people manually creating KML files by hand (a tedious job, but doable), or people getting KML from third party applications.

Google Maps enables you to create your own maps including custom locations, for example a "Parks" map with marked locations for your favorite parks. The map can be exported to the Google KML ...

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 ...

At Caltrans District 7 in Los Angeles, we use the onboard GPS capability of smartphones to navigate in real time to the locations of proposed aerial targets and National Geodetic Survey (NGS) control ...