View KML files in your browser
Google Earth's own format for places, paths and areas. Open a KML right here on a map, its folders as layers and its placemarks in their own styles. The file never leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your file opens on a map, framed to fit, its layers drawn over OpenStreetMap's streets and what it holds listed beside it.
- OpenStreetMap, dark or light • Flat or a globe
- Every layer and feature in a list • Search their names and fields
- Click a feature for its fields • Measure distances
- Export • PNG, GeoJSON, GPX, KML and CSV
About KML
KML began at Keyhole, whose Earth viewer Google bought in 2004 and turned into Google Earth. It became an open standard of the OGC in 2008, and Google My Maps, Google Earth, ArcGIS, QGIS and most GPS and drone apps read and write it.
A KML is XML: placemarks with a point, a line or an area, in folders, each with a name, a description and styles for its icon, line and fill. Extended data adds fields, a gx:Track records a trip with its times, and network links pull in other files from the web.
Filepeek draws a KML over OpenStreetMap in the file's own colors, each folder a layer to hide or show alone. Click a placemark to read its description and its data, search their names and fields, and save the features as GPX, GeoJSON, CSV or KML. Network links are named but never loaded.
Keyhole Markup Language
.kml
Format
- MIME type
- application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml
- Made by
- Keyhole, then Google, now the OGC
- Released
- 2004
Inside the file
- Holds
- Placemarks, paths and areas
- Sorted in
- Folders and documents
- Styles
- Icons, line and fill colors
- Built on
- XML
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens KML files on a map in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers download them.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open KML
- WindowsGoogle Earth Pro and QGIS
- MacGoogle Earth Pro and QGIS
- iPhone and iPadGoogle Earth
- AndroidGoogle Earth
Questions
How do I open a KML file without Google Earth?
Drop it on this page or choose Peek a KML. It opens on a map in your browser, with its folders and placemarks listed beside it.
Does it load a KML's network links?
No. A network link points at another file on the web, and loading it would tell that server the file was opened. Filepeek names each link and loads nothing.
Why don't descriptions look like they do in Google Earth?
Google Earth draws a description's HTML with its pictures. Filepeek shows its words as text, so nothing in the file runs or loads.
Can I convert KML to GPX?
Yes. Open the KML, choose Export, then Save the features as GPX. Points become waypoints and lines become tracks.
What's the difference between KML and KMZ?
A KMZ is a KML zipped with the pictures and icons it uses. Both open here, and a KMZ's pictures laid over the ground show on the map.