Where are the KML design firms?
It’s 1996. The web is made up of home pages and big corporate portals. You’re a small business, you want a web site but have no in-house HTML code monkeys. What do you do? Chances are that you find a net geek setting up a fledgling “web design” firm, looking for customers like you. The net geek has no idea how his market is about to explode. It’s 2006. Google Earth is made up of hobbyist content, big science outreach and some experimental real estate and tourism content. You’re a small business, want some content in KMZ and have no in-house GIS code monkeys. What do you do? There are suprisingly few outfits focused on this market. In the US, I only know of the The Timoney Group as having specifically articulated creating solutions for Google Earth/KML, but Brian Timoney appears to aim at larger corporations. A Dutch company, Globe Assistant, focuses on hotel and real estate. Many other GIS outfits probably could do KML output in their sleep, but the fact is that they aren’t advertising
