Google Maps enables you to create your own maps including custom locations, for example a "Parks" map with marked locations for your favorite parks. The map can be exported to the Google KML format ...

Google has just released a significant update to Google Maps which allows anyone to, in a sense, create their own maps “mashups” – or what they call “My Maps“. Google was kind enough to demo the new ...

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 ...

Did you know that Google Maps has a robust custom map creation tool? I don’t blame you if you don’t; Google doesn’t exactly make it easy to discover or use. Nevertheless, My Maps allows users to ...

Google has added support for its KML (Earth) format and the open GeoRSS format to the Google Maps API. I’m not a programmer, but what this means as a practical matter is that the GeoRSS standard gets ...