topic Re: kmz and kml in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/kmz-and-kml/m-p/134492#M7763 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Tini,</P><P></P><P>To add to what others have said, ArcMap seems to be able to handle KMLs the same way it handles KMZs. I like Dan's approach to unzipping a KMZ using Python, but you can also just open the KMZ in winzip or any other zip program to uncompress it (like 7-zip).</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 24 Apr 2016 22:19:45 GMT AdrianWelsh 2016-04-24T22:19:45Z kmz and kml https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/kmz-and-kml/m-p/134489#M7760 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>could you tell anyone the different between kmz and kml ?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 21 Apr 2016 09:24:55 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/kmz-and-kml/m-p/134489#M7760 tinigjeo 2016-04-21T09:24:55Z Re: kmz and kml https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/kmz-and-kml/m-p/134490#M7761 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>KMZ is KML-Zipped. It is the compressed version of the KML file.</P><P>For further details, check <A href="http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2005/09/google_earth_fi.html" title="http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2005/09/google_earth_fi.html">http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2005/09/google_earth_fi.html</A> </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 21 Apr 2016 09:30:23 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/kmz-and-kml/m-p/134490#M7761 JayantaPoddar 2016-04-21T09:30:23Z Re: kmz and kml https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/kmz-and-kml/m-p/134491#M7762 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>and it can be converted simply <A href="https://community.esri.com/thread/175492">convert *.kmz to *.kml</A> </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 21 Apr 2016 09:52:18 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/kmz-and-kml/m-p/134491#M7762 DanPatterson_Retired 2016-04-21T09:52:18Z Re: kmz and kml https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/kmz-and-kml/m-p/134492#M7763 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Tini,</P><P></P><P>To add to what others have said, ArcMap seems to be able to handle KMLs the same way it handles KMZs. I like Dan's approach to unzipping a KMZ using Python, but you can also just open the KMZ in winzip or any other zip program to uncompress it (like 7-zip).</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 24 Apr 2016 22:19:45 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/kmz-and-kml/m-p/134492#M7763 AdrianWelsh 2016-04-24T22:19:45Z