Natural Search Blog » open standards http://www.naturalsearchblog.com Thought leaders in search engine optimization weigh in with the latest SEO news and commentary Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:26:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 © pliesse@netconcepts.com () pliesse@netconcepts.com() 1440 Thought leaders in search engine optimization weigh in with the latest SEO news and commentary pliesse@netconcepts.com No no http://www.naturalsearchblog.com/images/logo.png Natural Search Blog http://www.naturalsearchblog.com 144 144 Google’s KML Becomes Industry Standard http://www.naturalsearchblog.com/archives/2008/04/14/googles-kml-becomes-industry-standard/ http://www.naturalsearchblog.com/archives/2008/04/14/googles-kml-becomes-industry-standard/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:01:16 +0000 Chris http://www.naturalsearchblog.com/archives/2008/04/14/googles-kml-becomes-industry-standard/
  • Google’s KML Becomes Industry Standard
    • ]]>     Google Earth IconIn an example of how becoming top dog can empower a company to influence and set industry-wide protocols, Google Earth’s KML format has been declared an open standard for geographical data by the Open Geospatial Consortium (“OGC”).

    It’s really great and progressive that such a large, publicly-traded company such as Google would release control of its considerable intellectual property rights and allow KML to be used by anyone.

    Google’s LatLong Blog also crows a bit about how KML is “the HTML of geographic content”, and explains that KML is no longer owned by Google, but is now administrated by the OGC.

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