WWT KML support

[Alberto Conti]

The KML schema is available here
http://code.google.com/apis/kml/schema/kml22beta.xsd

You can use XML Spy to generate a class from this schema.

http://groups.google.com/group/kml-support is also a useful place to  
look for information about KML.

Ciao,
Alberto


On Oct 23, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Fabien Chereau wrote:

> 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
>> Community Missions Office
>> Space Telescope Science Institute
>> contact | tel: 410-338-4534 | aim: wscience

Dr Alberto Conti
Community Missions Office
Space Telescope Science Institute
contact | tel: 410-338-4534 | aim: wscience



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