Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your KML file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert KML to another file type
To convert your KML file to another format, you need Google Earth or other GIS software.
Convert a file to KML
To convert other file formats to the "Geospatial Data Format" file type, you need software like Google Earth or a similar tool.
About KML files
KML (Keyhole Markup Language) is the standard XML-based format for modeling and storing geographic features such as points, lines, images, and polygons for display in Google Earth and Google Maps. While highly effective for visualizing 3D geospatial data, .KML files present significant challenges outside the Google ecosystem. As a verbose text format, large datasets can become unwieldy and slow to render without compression (unlike its binary counterpart, KMZ). Furthermore, many handheld GPS receivers (like those from Garmin) do not natively support .KML, requiring conversion to GPX for navigation. Similarly, GIS analysts often need to migrate data from .KML to SHP or GEOJSON for processing in software like QGIS or ArcGIS. For developers and web designers, embedding complex .KML files directly into websites is inefficient; converting to GEOJSON or raster formats like PNG is often necessary for performance and compatibility.
Convert.Guru analyzes your KML file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert KML file to SHP, GPX, CSV, KMZ, DWG, GEOJSON, PDF, DXF, TOPOJSON, TIF, TIFF or ECW, you can use Google Earth or similar software from the "Geographic Data Visualization" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert LAZ, KMZ, DTM, CSV, DEM, PRJ, LAS, GPX, DSM, SHP, DBF or IMG files to KML, try Google Earth or another comparable tool in the "Geographic Data Visualization" category.
The KML Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our KML converter.