Finding other people's Google Earth files

Owned by Tom Hammond
Jan 12, 2016

Searching for Google Earth files is easy if you use advanced search and even easier if you learn a little about Google's search syntax.

Advanced search: It's right here...https://www.google.com/advanced_search

The key move on this page is the "file type" field: shift it to kml or kmz. Ta-da, that's it. 

Using Google's search syntax: Just do a normal Google search but add filetype:kml or filetype:kmz in there. Look below: The left-hand image shows a search for "Revolutionary War"; the right-hand image shows the same search after I added "filetype:kmz"

     

 

Unfortunately, there is a lot of junk out there – I can help you find files, but I don't have a system for finding good files. 

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