Recently I've written a couple quick hacks to extract data from Google Earth kml files and while I've been able to do what I want in relatively quick order, I've always had to delete the <kml> tags ...

We have been working on some code to determine whether or not a placemark lies inside or outside a polygon. We thought a nice use for that code would be to determine what country a placemark is in.

Well, this is mostly a Google Maps story, but important nonetheless. It’s also more geared to developers than users. Google has added support in Google Maps for another standard file format called ...