Brightkite KML Support and Google Earth Visualizations

We recently added KML support to every Brightkite place page. To find it, just replace the .rss with .kml on the place page RSS feed.

For example: http://brightkite.com/places/77de68daecd823babbb58edb1c8e14d7106e83bb/objects.kml

Over the past few days we have been having a lot of fun visualizing live Brightkite activity by plugging network KML files into Google Earth.

You can visualize Brightkite place feeds in Google Earth as well, here’s how:

Download the following Brighkite Universe KML network file and open it in Google Earth:
brightkite_universe.kml

Here is another example showing activity from the Colorado place page:
brightkite_colorado.kml

We recommend only viewing one network feed at a time and changing your Google Earth “Fly Speed” to around 1.3.