It is what it is: And Just Like That, KML is a Shapefile

Friday, April 20, 2007

Briefly before the big bike ride, I notice that KML has support for a new <metadata> tag. And there it is. KML is the new shapefile.

At May 10, 2007 12:25 PM, rlake said...: One would hope we are now well beyond yet another shape file. The point of GML and by extension KML will not be to support ad hoc exchange of files (clearly this will go on), but to provide a means to synchronize databases through geospatial transactions across the Internet - so I can push/pull changes from one data store to another. This enables real time update (see http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/311) which is critical to a true GeoWeb.

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