[osg-users] OSG KML I/O (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Buckley, Bob CTR MDA/IC]

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If I remember right, John Rohlf is the author of KML.
He, along with Jim Helman, are the fathers of the modern day Scene Graph
(i.e., Performer).
Ah, Geek Trivia!

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[mailto:osg-users-bounces at lists.openscenegraph.org] On Behalf Of Paul
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Subject: Re: [osg-users] OSG KML I/O

He's probably referring to the Google Earth mark-up language:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyhole_Markup_Language
http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/

(Why K for "Keyhole"?  Well, because that is the product that google
bought to make Google earth.)

I suppose it could be useful to have an OSG application read these
directly but I've always sort of seen it as an interchange format for
dealing with Google Earth, ie: you had something else and turned it into
KML.  Seems to me that the "something else" is what you'd want to bring
into OSG.  Of course, I know of at least a few places that are actually
developing geospatial content in KML.  So it happens.  <shrug>  And is
probably off-topic anyway.

-Paul

Robert Osfield wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2008 6:53 PM, Mike Weiblen <mweiblen at zebraimaging.com>
wrote:
>> What the current state of KML content i/o for OSG?  (Plugins,
>> converters, etc?)
> 
> What do you mean by KML content i/o for OSG?
> 
> Kernel Mailing List is the only acronym I can think of for KML...
> 
> Robert.
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