I've been playing with different output formats for the GpsTracka app (which is doing somewhat alright right now, no thanks to kasracer ).

Of all the standards possible - GPX, KML and NMEA, KML is the worst. I wonder if this 'standard' was approve by a bunch of Google Sycophants, who are about this close (makes gesture) to being called Googletards.

Google: Hey everyone, look at this overly bloated, pointless, meaningless format we've created for representing geographical data. You use nested tags to represent coordinates! And, oh, there isn't a way to directly extract the latitude, you have to extract it and then parse it!
GoogleSycophants: Oh my god, Google is so awesome, that is the best format ever.
OnePersonWithSomeSense: Why not use the GPX format?
GoogleSycophants: Unbeliever! Get him!
Google: Approved. We'll put it in beta to propagate our business model of unstable software, lots of profit, and continued exculpability.


I've seen less bloat in a roadside diner after a beer and cheesecake binge. I've seen less redundancies in this recession than I have in this format. What sort of a text format needs it to be compressed for usage? For crying out loud, that isn't innovation, that's a workaround for your incompetence and shortcomings.

GoogleSycophant: But it's so popular, it must be there for a good reason.

Silence, you nincompoop noob. You do not know what you are talking about, because if you did, you wouldn't utter that tripe. Go and lick your google home page and gush about how amazing it is.