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Copyright © 2007, 2008 Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
i. Preface
This is an
OGC® Standard
for encoding
representations of geographic data for display in an earth browser.
Suggested additions, changes, and comments on this draft report are welcome and encouraged. Such suggestions may be submitted by email message or by making
suggested changes in an edited copy of this document.
ii. Submitting organizations
The following organizations submitted this Standard to the Open Geospatial Consortium Inc.:
a Google, Inc.
b Galdos Systems Inc.
iii. Submission contact points
All questions regarding this submission should be directed to the editor or submitters:
CONTACT COMPANY EMAIL
Tim Wilson Galdos Systems Inc.
twilson at galdosinc.com David Burggraf
Galdos Systems Inc. dburggraf at galdosinc.com
Ron Lake Galdos Systems Inc.
rlake at galdosinc.com Susan Patch
Galdos Systems Inc. spatch at galdosinc.com
Richard Martell Galdos Systems Inc.
rmartell at galdosinc.com Brian McClendon
Google, Inc. bam at google.com
Michael Jones Google, Inc.
mtj at google.com Michael Ashbridge
Google, Inc. mashbridge at google.com
Bent Hagemark Google, Inc.
bent at google.com Josie Wernecke
Google, Inc. josiew at google.com
Carl Reed Open Geospatial
Consortium creed at opengeospatial.org
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iv. Revision history
Date Release Author Paragraph
modified Description
3-7-06 0.0.5 Carl Reed
New Initial Version
41707 0.0.9 Carl Reed
Various Updates based on comments received
during Mass Market GEO WG meeting as well as a request from Google to
remove 3 elements.
5207 0.0.9
Carl Reed Various
Add preamble and edit document for posting as a BP.
8107 0.0.10
Susan Patch Various
Corrected all links to target within the document
Modified text to include final Google KML 2.2 reference text.
82907 0.0.11
Tim Wilson Various
Modified text to describe KML in terms of generic earth browsers.
Updated text and terminology to OGC 06-135r1 standards.
82907 0.0.12
David Burggraf Added Section 6,
Annex A and various other
edits. Added informative text describing the
KML coordinate reference system CRS and geometry models in terms of the
GML Geometry and Topic 2 Spatial Referencing. Added GML CRS
dictionary to Annex A.
Note: Document number changed to 07-113 when submitted to OGC.
9607 0.0.13 David
Burggraf, Ron Lake, Tim
Wilson, Susan Patch
Various Modified text for clarity and consistency
and to further describe KML in terms of generic earth browsers.
New diagrams added to Section 6. 91007
0.0.14 Carl Reed
OGC terminology Adjusted OGC terminology for new OGC TBD policies.
91107 0.0.14 Bent Hagemark,
Michael Ashbridge All
Reviewed for errors and omissions. 91207 0.0.14 David
Burggraf Section
6, geometry
elements Clarification of definitions.
91207 0.0.14 Ron Lake
Camera, PhotoOverlay,
Model Clarification of definitions.
91407 0.0.14
Susan Patch All
Copy editing and application of OGC styles.
91407 0.0.14
Tim Wilson All
Corrected errors and improved terminology.
101507 0.0.15
Bent Hagemark KML Schema
Updated for extension model, changes to Google KML 2.2 beta schema.
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Date Release Author Paragraph
modified Description
102907 0.0.15
Tim Wilson, Susan Patch
All Updated structure sections for revised
KML 2.2. schema 102907 0.0.15 Bent
Hagemark, Richard Martell,
Jeremy Parr- Pearson, Tim
Wilson All
Update assertions corresponding to OGC 07-134 KML 2.2 – Abstract Test Suite
102907 0.0.15 Bent Hagemark,
Michael Ashbridge, Josie Wernecke
PhotoOverlay, ImagePyramid
Text on handling and building large image pyramids.
110207 0.0.15 David Burggraf Section
6, PhotoOverlay
Clarifications. 110307
0.0.15 Tim Wilson
Section 6 Extension mechanism and policy text.
110407 0.0.15
Tim Wilson All
General edit. 210108
2.2.0-rc1 Tim Wilson
Metadata Updated OGC document metadata for
Candidate Standard release. 210108 2.2.0-rc1
Tim Wilson
Annex A Deprecated Metadata and Url elements
maintained in OGC KML 2.2 schema for compatibility with Google KML 2.2
schema. Deprecation note added to all deprecated elements as
xsd:annotationxsd:documentation.
230108 2.2.0-rc1
Tim Wilson All
Copy edit; atom-author-link.xsd schemaversion value changed to 1.0.0.
140408 2.2.0
Tim Wilson All
Updated OGC document metadata for Standard release. Minor errors corrected.
v. Changes to the OGC® Abstract Specification