{"id":69801,"date":"2015-10-27T22:22:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T22:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/mouse-navigation-in-arcgis-earth-1-0-beta\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:07:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:07:01","slug":"mouse-navigation-in-arcgis-earth-1-0-beta","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/3d-gis\/3d-gis\/mouse-navigation-in-arcgis-earth-1-0-beta","title":{"rendered":"Mouse Navigation in ArcGIS Earth 1.0 beta"},"author":6531,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23771],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[36731],"class_list":["post-69801","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-gis","product-arcgis-earth"],"acf":{"short_description":"We continue to get fantastic feedback about the ArcGIS Earth 1.0 beta! 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The essential pieces are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Click <strong>left mouse button<\/strong> and hold while moving the mouse to <strong>pan<\/strong> the view<\/li>\n<li>Click<strong> right mouse button<\/strong> and hold while moving the mouse to <strong>orbit<\/strong> around a point on the terrain<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mouse wheel zooms<\/strong> in (forward) and out (backward)<!--more--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;line-height: 24px\">You can also use the small arrow in the upper right of the viewport to orient north to be &#8216;up&#8217; in the view. \u00a0The small house icon will orient the view with north up, zoom out away from the Earth to 11,000 KM, and point the view directly down at the Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;line-height: 24px\">The geocode or locate bar can also be used for address information, place names, and coordinates in Decimal Degrees in the order <\/span><strong>[Longitude, Latitude].<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;line-height: 24px\">Check out a quick video talking you through these actions:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[youtube width=&#8221;425&#8243; height=&#8221;300&#8243;]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fh_Ywqjb_cY[\/embedyt]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;line-height: 24px\">We&#8217;re working quickly to make changes to meet some of the feedback users have logged by our code cutoff for our December release date. 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