Probably the greatest technological advance in Google Earth is the patent pending Network Link(TM) mechanisms described by Google's Keyhole Markup Language(TM) specification. These Network Links allow individuals, businesses, governments, and other organizations to easily publish dynamic geospatial data layers and have them seamlessly integrated into the unified Google Earth environment where it will be seen by millions of users as they search the globe.

The great power is not only in being able to deliver custom dynamic view-specific and time-specific content to individual Google Earth explorers, but further in the fact that users can see many of these layers at the same time. Want see the weather in Chicago? Click on the weather network link, save it to My Places, and enable it. Want to see the Crime in Chicago? Do the same. Want to see the homes for sale? Same again, Now with all thee enabled, just fly through this custom information landscape and pick a safe, home with a great location not far from the river and in the price range. Want to know which of these are open today? Just click the "more" link and the integrated web browser will show you where to go. KML is a sophisticated Service Provider Interface (SPI) that anticipates and provides the context for just this type of personal data fusion.

This forum is the place to share network links so that others may subscribe to the live data feeds they bring to each user's Google Earth environment. Developers using KML are encouraged to visit the KML Support forum for advice and tips then describe their dynamic data service in posts here with descriptions and links back to the supporting websites and/or a downloadable KML network link as appropriate.

We salute the innovation in the results that we have already seen and expect to be awed by those yet to come!