If you have downloaded a KMZ file you can extract the KML file using any Zip application. The contents of a KMZ file are a single root KML document (notionally “doc.kml”) and optionally any overlays, images, icons, and models referenced in the KML including network-linked KML files. deflate method) otherwise might not uncompress in all geobrowsers. Must be legacy (ZIP 2.0) compatible compression (e.g. KML files are very often distributed in KMZ files, which are zipped files with a. Other data can make the view more specific, such as tilt, heading, altitude, which together define a “camera view”. Each place always has a longitude and a latitude. The KML file specifies a set of features (placemarks, images, polygons, 3D models, textual descriptions, etc.) for display in Google Earth, Maps and Mobile, or any other 3D earth browser (geobrowser) implementing the KML encoding. Google Earth was the first program able to view and graphically edit KML files, and other projects such as Marble have also started to develop KML support. KML is an international standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium. The name “Keyhole” is an homage to the KH reconnaissance satellites, the original eye-in-the-sky military reconnaissance system first launched in 1976. It was created by Keyhole, Inc, which was acquired by Google in 2004. KML was developed for use with Google Earth, which was originally named Keyhole Earth Viewer. Keyhole Markup Language (KML) is an XML-based language schema for expressing geographic annotation and visualization on existing or future Web-based, two-dimensional maps and three-dimensional Earth browsers.
You can also use KMLCSV Converter to visually map your iPhone or iPad tracking data into Google Earth.
KMLCSV Converter is a free open source software that enables you to convert KML file to a formatted CSV file, and vice versa.