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It may depend on what data you have, what tools you have access to, how comfortable you are with software packages, if you are open to write code or use the command line. It is driven by your passion to pursue a research question and to have maps assist in the development of an argument. But how do you get started? The answer to this question largely depends on what you want to map, and how you want to create your map. If you need to open it to examine the contents, just rename it from “file.kmz” to “file.zip” and it’ll unzip the same way as any other compressed file.Getting Started with Spatial Research I need maps for my research… how do I get started?Īs members of an academic community with a myriad of research initiatives, the need to map information, to spatially analyze, to geoprocess, and to visualize space and time is becoming ubiquitous. This is a zipped file that contains a KML along with other media (usually images). You’ll also encounter a “KMZ” file from time to time. If you’re a developer and you’re interested in learning more about KML, Google has a great section of KML Documentation to help you get started. We also include KML files with many of our posts on here to help provide a quick link to view a particular item in Google Earth KML is what allowed me to start projects such as Google Earth Hacks, where users have uploaded nearly 30,000 KML files. It works similarly to standard XML files, but has a variety of special components specifically for geo-related stuff. Keyhole developed a whole new world for us to dive into, and one aspect of that was the “KML” file - Keyhole Markup Language. Between Google’s influence and the new low price of free (none of Keyhole’s products were completely free), Google Earth instantly become a huge hit. Google purchased Keyhole in 2004 and released it to us a year later.

Keyhole, Inc was formed in 2001 and created a product called “Earth Viewer” - essentially an early version of what we now know as Google Earth.

Google Earth was released in June, 2005, but the story of it begins well before that.