From here, click on KML button to download the file. After downloading the file to your desktop, Google Earth will load it and provide weather forecasts.

KML is what allowed me to start projects such as Google Earth Hacks, where users have uploaded nearly 30,000 KML files.

A quick trick for viewing a KML map file directly in Google Maps without downloading it or opening Google Earth.

It is a popular format developed and maintained by Esri for use in GIS products. Google Earth Pro, it turns out, has built-in support for importing shape files.

On your second computer, just double-click the KML file in your cloud folder. It will open Earth with all of your placemarks. This isn’t a perfect solution.

Google Earth users can now search publicly available Keyhole Markup Language (KML) data files, also known as map layers.

The Google Maps API Blog announced that Google Earth has added a feature built into the Google Earth application to enable you to search for Keyhole Markup Language (KML) files. KMLs allow ...

Those with Google Earth already installed could open it fine. Others couldn't easily figure out that the file also opens in the Web-based Google Maps service, though without all the 3-D goodies.

Google's installable maps software Google Earth makes KML overlay files that add points of interest, descriptions and photos to your earth, and now you can view those KML files live on the web at ...

The spread of that information has already extended to Google competitor Microsoft Virtual Earth, which has started to include KML files in Live Search Maps.