KML is one of the standard formats for geo data, and therefore is usable in a number of systems other than Google Maps API. MyMaps, Google Earth and the Google web spider understand the KML format. Some non-Google systems, such as ArcMap, World Wind and eXplorist can either import KML files directly or people have written convertors.
If you're sure that you're never going to be interested in using your data with anything other than your own Google Maps API page, then there's not much point generating KML. The downside of using KML is that its complexity causes it to be somewhat inefficient, and the complexity also means that you probably won't want to write your own code to parse it, which in turn means that you lose control over the details of the way the data is used. If you use GGeoXml to render your KML, then you get no control at all about how the data gets processed; EGeoXml and GeoXml provide some options, but if you want total control, you're better off using a simple data format which you can process in your own code in any way you want. -- http://econym.googlepages.com/index.htm The Blackpool Community Church Javascript Team --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
