Articles

• An Overview of Using KML in the Earth API

  KML plays an important role in all of the Google Geo developer products, especially the Google Earth API. This article describes how to load and display KML files in the Google Earth Plug-in using fetchKml (or Network Links) as well as how to do the same with arbitrary KML strings using parseKml.

• DOM Part I: An Introduction to the Earth API Document Object Model

  This article provides an introduction to the W3C Document Object Model (DOM) specification and discusses the parallels between the Earth API's KML DOM access methods and web browsers' HTML DOM methods.

• DOM Part II: Using the GEarthExtensions Utility Library for Easy DOM Manipulation

  In this article, we'll learn about the GEarthExtensions utility library's method of simplifying DOM traversals and how we can easily perform common DOM search and manipulation operations on entire KML document trees using this method.

• A Database Driven Earth App: Using PHP & MySQL with the Earth API

  This tutorial walks you through various options to use PHP and MySQL to drive the Earth API.