WWT KML support

[Fabien Chereau]

Does anyone know if some open source KML library is planned to be 
released in a near future? It seems that Google people wants to release 
theirs at some point: 
http://industry.slashgeo.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/19/0146226
I am working on the open source Stellarium/VirGO 
(http://archive.eso.org/cms/tools-documentation/visual-archive-browser) 
and also investigate adding KML support in it.
Thanks,
Fabien

Alberto Conti wrote:
> Thanks Jonathan.
> This is really good news for astronomy.
> 
> Ciao,
> Alberto
> 
> On Oct 21, 2007, at 7:27 PM, Jonathan Fay wrote:
> 
>> It has been noted in the news recently that the new release of 
>> Microsoft Virtual Earth supports a subset of KML, and that Microsoft 
>> will be working with the geo community to better support interoperable 
>> standards.
>>
>> The news has resulted in a number of e-mails asking if World Wide 
>> Telescope will support KML.
>>
>> The answer is that WWT will support most of the subset of KML 
>> supported by Google Sky, but we plan on having native ways of getting 
>> data into WWT that will use formats astronomers are already familiar 
>> with.
>>
>> So while we will support the tools already being developed for KML we 
>> will also support native vo interfaces in a richer way than having to 
>> map thru KML. More details will follow later.
>>
>> Still there is a lot of interest in KML right now so I have been 
>> trying to track down as many KML based astronomy links as I can to 
>> make sure they are all tested in WWT as part our release process.
>>
>> If you have a KML based service I would love to get a link to it so I 
>> can test. While we are coding to the KML 2.2 spec, we are also 
>> supporting backward compatible dialects that have been deprecated in 
>> 2.2 to ensure compatibility.
>>
>> Please reply privately with any KML service links.
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jonathan Fay
>> Principal Research Software Design Engineer
>> World Wide Telescope
>> Microsoft Research
> 
> Dr Alberto Conti
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> Space Telescope Science Institute
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