The Google Earth custom maps features that allows you to view KML files, is extremely powerful and has now been added to mobile devices in Google Earth 6.2 for Android and iOS smartphones and tablets.

Among those is the ability to import a KML mapping file right into the app, simply by tapping a link on the web from your device. These ‘Google Earth’ files allow people to distribute custom ...

From here, click on KML button to download the file. After downloading the file to your desktop, Google Earth will load it and provide weather forecasts.

I predict this new feature will produce all kinds of interesting new Google Earth files. You KML developer guys can save this file as KML and look at the resulting KML to figure out how it works.

On your second computer, just double-click the KML file in your cloud folder. It will open Earth with all of your placemarks. This isn’t a perfect solution.

As part of the recent Google Maps redesign, the ability to export your map to KML was mistakenly removed. According to a post in the Google Maps support forum, the feature will be added back in to ...