{"id":75071,"date":"2017-01-19T16:51:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T16:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/arcgis-earth-1-4-gets-a-significant-boost\/"},"modified":"2021-01-19T08:46:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T16:46:43","slug":"arcgis-earth-1-4-gets-a-significant-boost","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-earth\/3d-gis\/arcgis-earth-1-4-gets-a-significant-boost","title":{"rendered":"ArcGIS Earth 1.4 gets a significant boost!"},"author":6931,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23771],"tags":[25781,23811,25891,23171,32501,22901,23311,24391],"industry":[],"product":[36591,36731],"class_list":["post-75071","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-gis","tag-3d","tag-3d-visualization","tag-arcgis","tag-basemaps","tag-globe","tag-national-government","tag-portal-for-arcgis","tag-public-safety","product-apps","product-arcgis-earth"],"acf":{"short_description":"ArcGIS Earth 1.4 gets a significant boost!\r\n\r\nThe Esri 3D team is excited to announce the release of ArcGIS Earth 1.4. This release focused...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

A<\/strong>rcGIS Earth 1.4 gets a significant boost!<\/strong><\/p>\n

ArcGIS Earth<\/a> is an interactive 3D experience to plan, visualize, and evaluate events on the globe. It\u2019s a free and easy-to-use tool that provides situational awareness on desktop and mobile devices for improved decision-making and the Esri 3D team is excited to announce the release of ArcGIS Earth 1.4<\/a>. This release focused on streamlining enterprise deployment workflows and on enhancing the Portal for ArcGIS<\/a> experience.<\/p>\n

In addition, major improvements have been made to Earth\u2019s drawing and table of contents (TOC). An upgraded popup window improves HTML display, the ability to log errors, and more KML functionality are all part of the new release.<\/p>\n

Administrators get more flexibility for deploying Earth in controlled user environments. A configuration (.xml<\/em>) file<\/a> can be distributed along with the installer and can allow the pre-configuration of many of Earth\u2019s setting and parameters. Preset parameters can include navigation, units, error logging, start up layers, basemaps, terrain and more. Newly added for organizations running ArcGIS Earth behind firewalls is the ability to specify organization\u2019s portals including setting a default portal URL.<\/p>\n

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As a compliment, a new portal configuration interface was added, creating an experience similar to the ArcGIS Pro portal experience in which the app remembers previously accessed portals. Users can now easily switch among Organizations in on premises ArcGIS Enterprise portals or ArcGIS Online with the new portal configuration tool.<\/p>\n

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\nDrawing features such as points, lines, and polygons got a major overhaul. Users have enhanced drawing functionality that includes:<\/p>\n