http://www.gisblog.net/news/google-joins-ogc/ Geospatial Information Science - Trends, Tools & Technologies Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:29:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.gisblog.net/news/google-joins-ogc/#comment-87 Sven Schade Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:22:18 +0000 http://www.gisblog.net/news/google-joins-ogc/#comment-87 As far as I know Google Earth uses the Keyhole Markup Language (KML), which is an XML vocabulary for geospatial data, just as GML. Concequently, GML formated data can be transformed (via XSLT) to KML and vise versa. I know of some experiments to do so. Basically visualisations of data from a WFS can be already done. For the future I expect some stronger harmonisation between these two formats. As far as I know Google Earth uses the Keyhole Markup Language (KML), which is an XML vocabulary for geospatial data, just as GML. Concequently, GML formated data can be transformed (via XSLT) to KML and vise versa. I know of some experiments to do so. Basically visualisations of data from a WFS can be already done. For the future I expect some stronger harmonisation between these two formats.

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