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

[John Ward]

Brian,
.kmz is a compressed keyhole markup file (kml). Its used by google earth 
among other things.

If you have google earth installed it will auto load the link and 
probably zoom to the location

Joh

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-
>