What is a .GML file?
GML is an XML standard for describing geographic features. Defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium.
- Did you know
- GML is the OGC’s XML grammar for sharing maps and spatial data.
- GML was also adopted by ISO as standard 19136, the result of collaboration between the Open Geospatial Consortium and ISO’s geographic-information committee.
- GML can describe not just points and lines but coverages, coordinate reference systems and rich geographic feature models.
- What Analyser reads
- Inspect geospatial and GIS files without a map: TopoJSON, OpenStreetMap XML, Esri Shapefile siblings (SHP/SHX/DBF/PRJ/CPG), world files, GML, NMEA GPS logs, IGC flight logs, MapInfo TAB/MIF, GDAL VRT, PMTiles, DTED terrain, Esri ASCII grids and SRTM .hgt - surfacing CRS/EPSG, feature/record counts, bounding boxes and elevation ranges. GRIB/NetCDF/GeoPackage/MBTiles/MrSID/ECW identified.
- Depth of analysis
- .GML is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .GML file
- Drag a .GML file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.