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

[Thomas Rooney]

I think you can use them with google earth... maybe

Brian Foster wrote:
>  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-
>