- Extension
- .kml
- .wkt
- Format
- Text
- Text
- Category
- GIS
- GIS
- Developer
- Google
- Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
- Description
- A KML (Keyhole Markup Language File) is a plaintext file format used to display geographic data in an Earth browser such as Google Earth, Google Maps, and MapQuest. KML files specify various geographic information, including points, lines, images, polygons, and models, along with attributes like descriptions, place marks, and camera angles. This format, which is based on XML (eXtensible Markup Language), allows users to not only visualize but also navigate through locations and structures.
- A WKT file holds the shapes of a map as plain Well-Known Text, one geometry per line, such as POINT (18.068 59.329) or MULTIPOLYGON (((18.06 59.328,18.065 59.328,18.065 59.325,18.06 59.325))). It is the geometry-only form of WKT that PostGIS, shapely, QGIS and other GIS tools read.
- MIME Type
- application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml
- text/plain
