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By: Brian Flood

Brian Flood — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:58:38 +0000

hi csrchmidt

I think the SchemaData tags introduced in KML 2.2 certainly help in the area of portable attribute data. granted, most exports do not include schema data and the spec seems a little light on field types (no Date type?) but once you include these values, I don’t see KML too differently from other exchange formats.

my 2 cents…

cheers
brian

By: crschmidt

crschmidt — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:23:38 +0000

Jeremy:

I’m not sure I understand the question? I’m not saying that KML is doing anything wrong, but geometry and time are not the only important attributes of geographic features, and KML lacks the capacity to describe the more complete set of attributes that is generally neccesary to work in any non-presentational way with geographic features.

By: Jeremy Cothran

Jeremy Cothran — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:58:58 +0000

I’ve seen continued belief by some users that KML is a geographic data interchange format. Although exchanging geographic data via KML is possible, it’s not an interchange format for data: it’ s primarily an interchange format for presentation.

While I generally agree with the above statement, KML does copy GML in regards to location and ISO8601 in regards to time formatting so why not copy a few popular content standards also as a feature rather than a bug, especially for low-bandwidth type data ? KML can continue to structurally maintain separation between styling and content within the same document file.

“The medium is the message” - McLuhan

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Links: Games, KML, Data, and more » all about google — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:27:00 +0000

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Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:14:31 +0000

[...] KML: HTML for the Geoweb - Christopher Schmidt, TechnicalRamblings KML has become the “HTML” of the Geographic Web. With limited semantic meaning, a combination of mostly-human understandable XML tags for the majority of the usages, widespread use and abuse for purposes far beyond the original thoughts and intentions of the designers, and more, KML fits well into the geographic version of the niche filled by HTML in more generalized content publishing. [...]