[ILUG] [Q] what do I do with a `.kmz file?

[Brian Foster]

 recently, whilst searching the location/address
 of the La Ciotat (France) train station, and in
 particular plotting it on a map to get my bearings,
 all I could find was a `.kmz' file.  that is a zip
 file which, in this case, contains one `.kml' file,
 which is, in turn, an XML file containing some
 location data (including longitude and latitude).

 well, Ok, I more-or-less have what I want, but
 what do I _do_ with it?

 is there some way of using the `.kmz' or `.kml'
 file with, e.g., Google Maps?  (searching with
 Google Maps directly only seems to find the
 unrelated(?) street « Avenue de la Gare ».)

 using:
     http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/longlat.htm
 and entering the co-ordinates manually gives
 me a clew where the fsck the station is, but
 unzipping the `.kmz' and manually entering the
 data found in the `.kml' is awkward (and the
 result is not as clear as could be desired).

 ( finding the address/location of the La Ciotat
  station is perhaps unusually difficult since
  it just so happens to be the location of one
  of the earliest, and perhaps the best known
  of the early, movies made, « L'Arrivée d'un
  train en gare de La Ciotat » by the Lumière
  brothers in 1895.  hence, searchs tend to find
  that historic film, not modern-day info! ;-\ )

cheers!
	-blf-
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