Powerful drag-and-drop capabilities with HTML5 and the Google Earth Plug-in
by Google Earth Blog on May.10, 2011, under 3D Models, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, California, Denmark, England, Germany, Google Earth News, Google Earth Tips, Google Sky, Google maps, Hawaii, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Natural Landmarks, Netherlands, Sightseeing, Street Views, USA
HTML5 and the Google Earth Plug-in both have some powerful tools for web developers, and Googler Sean Maday has put together a great demonstration showing how they can work together.
Watch the short video below to see how he built an application that allows you to drag a KML file onto on web page and have it automatically parse the KML and display the data on a map. Even better, he shows an example where he drops a CSV file on the map, which is then geocoded line-by-line with the output being displayed on the map. It's a very simple yet very impressive demonstration.
Better still, Sean has made all of the code available for you to download and play with. Grab it at sigacts.com/html5/ and see what you can do.
Thanks Sean!