Draw line in Google Earth that takes account of the globe's curvature

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Published on 2010-04-19T23:00:54Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 23:03 UTC
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I want to draw some lines that would follow either the longitude or latitude, but it doesn't take the globe's curvature in account.

How would I go about doing that? I'm using KML.

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