{"id":70781,"date":"2016-01-28T14:48:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T14:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/getting-to-know-arcgis-earth-1-0\/"},"modified":"2021-09-02T11:08:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T18:08:27","slug":"getting-to-know-arcgis-earth-1-0","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/3d-gis\/3d-gis\/getting-to-know-arcgis-earth-1-0","title":{"rendered":"Getting to know ArcGIS Earth 1.0"},"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":[23771,24641],"tags":[25781,28671,28681],"industry":[],"product":[36591,36731],"class_list":["post-70781","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-gis","category-defense","tag-3d","tag-earth","tag-google-earth","product-apps","product-arcgis-earth"],"acf":{"short_description":"Two weeks ago, we launched ArcGIS Earth and have had a fantastic reaction from the community.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t tried it yet, download...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

\"ArcGIS<\/a><\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, we launched ArcGIS Earth and have had a fantastic reaction from the community.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t tried it yet, download Earth for free here<\/a>. With thousands of downloads and many, many positive and constructive comments, it\u2019s been validating to see the nature and volume of your feedback.\u00a0 We\u2019re glad that you find value in Earth and are even having fun exploring this new app.<\/p>\n

Your feedback has also helped us identify areas to provide a little more information. This blog will attempt to address some of the common items that we\u2019re being asked about.\u00a0 In future blogs, we\u2019ll address some of the roadmap directions for Earth as well as provide some more practical tips on how to use the 1.0 release.<\/p>\n

What is ArcGIS Earth?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Simply put, ArcGIS Earth is an interactive globe viewer that helps you explore any part of the world and work with 3D and 2D map data including KML, shapefiles, and Esri RESTful services.\u00a0 You can display data on the globe, sketch placemarks, measure distances and areas, and add annotations so you can easily understand spatial data<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"ArcGIS<\/a>
ArcGIS Earth 1.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Earth extends the ArcGIS platform by enabling any user in your organization to explore data from Esri and to allow users to access secured data inside an organization. One of the strengths of using Earth and other ArcGIS clients, such as the web scene viewer<\/a> in the cloud with ArcGIS Online or on-premises with Portal for ArcGIS, is that with these lightweight clients, you can simultaneously consume many data types coming from multiple sources.\u00a0 By designing a new client that takes advantage of the capabilities of the ArcGIS platform, we were able to focus on delivering an experience that will help you distribute access to spatial information and the value of GIS throughout your organizations.<\/p>\n

Who is it for?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When we were conceiving ArcGIS Earth, we focused on two key user groups, secure enterprise users and community GIS consumers.<\/p>\n

With the gradual withdrawal of Google Earth Enterprise-related on-premises technologies from the market, we heard clearly from many of our customers that they hoped that we would help them fill the capability gap left by the departure of Google.\u00a0 While we know that we won\u2019t close this gap in a 1.0 release and we realize that customers\u2019 needs have changed to also consider web and mobile technologies, we are committed to demonstrating that, for those who need it, we can provide a reliable, installable experience that enables non-GIS professionals to access GIS information in a secure and adaptable tool. (More to come in the future on the configurability of Earth for enterprise users.) Incidentally, our web and mobile capabilities are also part of the overall on-premises enterprise story.<\/p>\n

\"Bing<\/a>
Bing Maps accessed through Portal for ArcGIS Server<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For the wider community of GIS consumers who occasionally want to explore the planet, view shared GIS files, and possibly even have a tool to help communicate using maps, we are providing them with the ability to explore basemaps and 3D terrains in Earth, view shapefiles and KML, and we\u2019re listening to their feedback on our blogs and the GeoNet forum<\/a>.\u00a0 We encourage educators and researchers to explore the use of ArcGIS Earth in their projects and classes.\u00a0 These users can access publicly shared maps from Esri and the community, such as the datasets in the Living Atlas of the World<\/a>, a growing collection of curated map data, much of which is accessible without an ArcGIS Online account.<\/p>\n

What can I do with Earth at 1.0?<\/strong><\/p>\n

For ArcGIS Earth 1.0, we focused on establishing the user experience for what will become a widely accessible tool for sharing the value of GIS throughout an organization.\u00a0 This means that we focused on:<\/p>\n