KML Samples 1 Unleash your creativity with the help of these examples! Placemarks These are just some of the different kinds of placemarks with which you can mark your favorite places -122.0839597145766 37.42222904525232 0 500.6566641072245 40.5575073395506 -148.4122922628044 Simple placemark Attached to the ground. Intelligently places itself at the height of the underlying terrain. -122.0822035425683,37.42228990140251,0 Floating placemark 0 Floats a defined distance above the ground. -122.0839597145766 37.42222904525232 0 500.6566641072245 40.5575073395506 -148.4122922628044 #downArrowIcon relativeToGround -122.084075,37.4220033612141,50 Extruded placemark 0 Tethered to the ground by a customizable "tail" -122.0845787421525 37.42215078737763 0 365.2646606980322 40.55750733918048 -148.4126684946234 #globeIcon 1 relativeToGround -122.0857667006183,37.42156927867553,50 Styles and Markup 0 With KML it is easy to create rich, descriptive markup to annotate and enrich your placemarks -122.0845787422371 37.42215078726837 0 365.2646826292919 40.55750733930874 -148.4126777488172 #noDrivingDirections Highlighted Icon 0 Place your mouse over the icon to see it display the new icon -122.0856552124024 37.4224281311035 0 265.8520424250024 0 0 normal #normalPlacemark highlight #highlightPlacemark Roll over this icon 0 #exampleStyleMap -122.0856545755255,37.42243077405461,0 Descriptive HTML 0
Placemark descriptions can be enriched by using many standard HTML tags.
For example:
Styles:
Italics, Bold, Underlined, Strike Out, subscriptsubscript, superscriptsuperscript, Big, Small, Typewriter, Emphasized, Strong, Code
Fonts:
red by name, leaf green by hexadecimal RGB
size 1, size 2, size 3, size 4, size 5, size 6, size 7
Times, Verdana, Arial
Links:
Google Earth!
or: Check out our website at www.google.com
Alignment:

left

center

right

Ordered Lists:
  1. First
  2. Second
  3. Third
  1. First
  2. Second
  3. Third
  1. First
  2. Second
  3. Third
Unordered Lists:
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • A
  • B
  • C
Definitions:
Google:
The best thing since sliced bread
Centered:
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
Block Quote:
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-- T.S. Eliot

Headings:

Header 1

Header 2

Header 3

Header 4

Header 5

Images:
Remote image

Scaled image

Simple Tables:
12345
abcde

[Did you notice that double-clicking on the placemark doesn't cause the viewer to take you anywhere? This is because it is possible to directly author a "placeless placemark". If you look at the code for this example, you will see that it has neither a point coordinate nor a LookAt element.]]]> Ground Overlays 0 Examples of ground overlays Large-scale overlay on terrain 0 Overlay shows Mount Etna erupting on July 13th, 2001. 15.02468937557116 37.67395167941667 0 30350.36838438907 58.31228652890705 -16.5581842842829 http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/etna.jpg 37.91904192681665 37.46543388598137 15.35832653742206 14.60128369746704 -0.1556640799496235 Screen Overlays 0 Screen overlays have to be authored directly in KML. These examples illustrate absolute and dynamic positioning in screen space. Simple crosshairs 0 This screen overlay uses fractional positioning to put the image in the exact center of the screen http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/crosshairs.png Absolute Positioning: Top left 0 http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/top_left.jpg Absolute Positioning: Top right 0 http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/top_right.jpg Absolute Positioning: Bottom left 0 http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/bottom_left.jpg Absolute Positioning: Bottom right 0 http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/bottom_right.jpg Dynamic Positioning: Top of screen 0 http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/dynamic_screenoverlay.jpg Dynamic Positioning: Right of screen 0 http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/dynamic_right.jpg Paths 0 Examples of paths. Note that the tessellate tag is by default set to 0. If you want to create tessellated lines, they must be authored (or edited) directly in KML. Tessellated 0 tag has a value of 1, the line will contour to the underlying terrain]]> -112.0822680013139 36.09825589333556 0 2889.145007690472 62.04855796276328 103.8120432044965 1 -112.0814237830345,36.10677870477137,0 -112.0870267752693,36.0905099328766,0 Untessellated 0 tag has a value of 0, the line follow a simple straight-line path from point to point]]> -112.0822680013139 36.09825589333556 0 2889.145007690472 62.04855796276328 103.8120432044965 0 -112.080622229595,36.10673460007995,0 -112.085242575315,36.09049598612422,0 Absolute 0 Transparent purple line -112.2719329043177 36.08890633450894 0 2569.386744398339 44.60763714063257 -106.8161545998597 #transPurpleLineGreenPoly 1 absolute -112.265654928602,36.09447672602546,2357 -112.2660384528238,36.09342608838671,2357 -112.2668139013453,36.09251058776881,2357 -112.2677826834445,36.09189827357996,2357 -112.2688557510952,36.0913137941187,2357 -112.2694810717219,36.0903677207521,2357 -112.2695268555611,36.08932171487285,2357 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exactly. Turn on/off terrain to see the difference between relative and absolute positioning. -112.3348969157552 36.14845533214919 0 990.6761201087104 49.30695423894192 -86.91235037566909 Absolute 0 #transBluePoly 1 absolute -112.3372510731295,36.14888505105317,1784 -112.3356128688403,36.14781540589019,1784 -112.3368169371048,36.14658677734382,1784 -112.3384408457543,36.14762778914076,1784 -112.3372510731295,36.14888505105317,1784 Absolute Extruded 0 #transRedPoly 1 1 absolute -112.3396586818843,36.14637618647505,1784 -112.3380597654315,36.14531751871353,1784 -112.3368254237788,36.14659596244607,1784 -112.3384555043203,36.14762621763982,1784 -112.3396586818843,36.14637618647505,1784 Relative 0 -112.3350152490417 36.14943123077423 0 345.5169113679813 37.92486261093203 -118.9214100848499 #transGreenPoly 1 relativeToGround -112.3349463145932,36.14988705767721,100 -112.3354019540677,36.14941108398372,100 -112.3344428289146,36.14878490381308,100 -112.3331289492913,36.14780840132443,100 -112.3317019516947,36.14680755678357,100 -112.331131440106,36.1474173426228,100 -112.332616324338,36.14845453364654,100 -112.3339876620524,36.14926570522069,100 -112.3349463145932,36.14988705767721,100 Relative Extruded 0 -112.3351587892382 36.14979247129029 0 401.0997279712519 56.10280503739589 -55.42811560891606 #transYellowPoly 1 1 relativeToGround -112.3348783983763,36.1514008468736,100 -112.3372535345629,36.14888517553886,100 -112.3356068927954,36.14781612679284,100 -112.3350034807972,36.14846469024177,100 -112.3358353861232,36.1489624162954,100 -112.3345888301373,36.15026229372507,100 -112.3337937856278,36.14978096026463,100 -112.3331798208424,36.1504472788618,100 -112.3348783983763,36.1514008468736,100