https://ikml.com/tags/ikml/ Recent content in Ikml on ikml.com Hugo en-us Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ikml.com/why-the-map-file-inspector-is-called-ikml/ Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://ikml.com/why-the-map-file-inspector-is-called-ikml/ <p>iKML is two parts: the &ldquo;i&rdquo; of inspect, and KML.</p> <p><strong>KML</strong> is the format the tool reads most, and the one people struggle with most. It&rsquo;s the Keyhole Markup Language, named after Keyhole, the company whose Earth viewer became Google Earth. Today it&rsquo;s an open standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium, which is why any tool, iKML included, can read and write it freely. iKML reads KMZ and GeoJSON too, but KML is where the trouble usually starts.</p>