KML & KMZ

KML and KMZ: The Definitive Guide — Open, Convert, and Fix Errors

KML is XML, KMZ is that XML zipped, and <coordinates> are lon,lat in WGS 84 — always. We ran nine experiments with GDAL's KML and LIBKML drivers: the swapped pair that lands in the South Atlantic, the KML driver that drops every attribute on read, styles lost in conversion, and the fixes.