screen overlay | Documentation

A screen overlay is an image in a KMLKeyhole Markup Language (KML) is an XML-based format that describes geographic entities. Developed and popularized for use with Google Earth, the KML specification is now maintained by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).Learn more layer that is anchored to the screen (as opposed to the map). Screen overlays are generally used to display things such as titles, company logos, legends, and so forth.

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KMLKeyhole Markup Language (KML) is an XML-based format that describes geographic entities. Developed and popularized for use with Google Earth, the KML specification is now maintained by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).Learn more