Google Supporting KML with C++ Library
Monday March 31, 2008
KML is the geographic data file format (and XML grammar) used on Google Earth and Google Maps. If you are comfortable with XML, you'll have no problems with KML. You can validate KML with XML editors and easily view the KML for any feature in Google
Earth by right clicking on the places panel and copying then pasting it into a text or XML editor.
To help C++ developers avoid reinventing the wheel when it comes to parsing and using KML files, Google has brought out a preview release of libkml, a reference library for reading, writing and using KML. It's at version 0.1 and will no doubt go through various changes before release at 1.0. When version 1.0 comes out I'll add it to the C++ code library.
- Link to C++ Code Library
- Link to C++ Tutorials
The picture shows Google Earth centered on my old house in N. Ireland at postcode BT38 7ND!
Comments
Greetings,
Just in time the libkml appears, I was thinking in reinventing the wheel. The thing is, after trying to compile and get the engine libraries, and run the first example, in your words, how is the best way to manage google maps using this libkml from my own c++ application.
Thanks a lot…