In addition to the Newsweek article, the Chicago Sun Times ran an opinion piece in 2000 that questioned the company's motives with Terraserver. It may be as simple as Barclay suggested: Microsoft didn't see itself as an information company, and the media was skeptical of its intentions had it decided to become one. Current Microsoft representative declined to be interviewed for this article, and Jim Gray, Barclay's boss, was lost at sea in 2007. It's easy to look at Terraserver as a missed opportunity for Microsoft to dominate the next era of computing, and it's hard to say why, exactly, the company decided to stop pouring resources into it. "There's definitely a little bit of frustration there." "In the science community, this technology took off, but as a business I could never get anyone at Microsoft to latch onto it," Barclay said. "It turns out that 'round Earth, flat monitor' is an enormous pain in the neck," Barclay said. Barclay quickly ran into an age-old cartography problem. He was a database guy-Terraserver was the first website he'd ever made, and it was the first project he'd ever tried that had anything to do with mapping, which proved to be quite a challenge. Gray put Barclay, who Rossmeisl called "the brains of the project" in charge, and he got to coding. The images, along with some from recently declassified Russian military photos, totaled just over 2.3 terabytes. "I thought getting the data on the web was really important, and I wanted to help make it happen." "We had imagery from maybe half of the country done digitally and we had some capabilities to deliver them, but not in a fast, accessible way," Rossmeisl told me. The Cold War was over, which allowed spy satellite imagery to be declassified, no one was worried about terrorism in a pre-9/11 world, and, well, the average person was beginning to get the internet. KML was originally developed for use with Google Earth which was originally known as Keyhole Earth Viewer.The timing was more-or-less perfect.
All the tags are case-sensitive and the order of these tags, as per KML Reference, is important to follow. KML uses a tag-based structure with nested elements and attributes. Many applications have started providing support for KML file format after it has been adopted as international standard. Files saved as KML can be opened in Geographic Information System (GIS) applications provided they support it. KML, Keyhole Markup Language) contains geospatial information in XML notation.
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