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 -148.4122922628044 40.5575073395506 500.6566641072245 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 -148.4122922628044 40.5575073395506 500.6566641072245 #downArrowIcon relativeToGround -122.084075,37.4220033612141,50 Extruded placemark 0 Tethered to the ground by a customizable "tail" -122.0845787421525 37.42215078737763 0 -148.4126684946234 40.55750733918048 365.2646606980322 #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 -148.4126777488172 40.55750733930874 365.2646826292919 #noDrivingDirections Highlighted Icon 0 Place your mouse over the icon to see it display the new icon -122.0856552124024 37.4224281311035 0 0 0 265.8520424250024 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 -16.5581842842829 58.31228652890705 30350.36838438907 http://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/images/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://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/images/crosshairs.png Absolute Positioning: Top left 0 http://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/images/top_left.jpg Absolute Positioning: Top right 0 http://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/images/top_right.jpg Absolute Positioning: Bottom left 0 http://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/images/bottom_left.jpg Absolute Positioning: Bottom right 0 http://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/images/bottom_right.jpg Dynamic Positioning: Top of screen 0 http://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/images/dynamic_screenoverlay.jpg Dynamic Positioning: Right of screen 0 http://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/images/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 0 103.8120432044965 62.04855796276328 2889.145007690472 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 0 103.8120432044965 62.04855796276328 2889.145007690472 0 -112.080622229595,36.10673460007995,0 -112.085242575315,36.09049598612422,0 Absolute 0 Transparent purple line -112.2719329043177 36.08890633450894 0 -106.8161545998597 44.60763714063257 2569.386744398339 #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 -86.91235037566909 49.30695423894192 990.6761201087104 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 -118.9214100848499 37.92486261093203 345.5169113679813 #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 -55.42811560891606 56.10280503739589 401.0997279712519 #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