Comments on: Content for ArcGIS Explorer vs. Google Earth

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:48:10 +0000

Three things not mentioned here where Explorer ups GE:

- Explorer can handle large files….try making a kmz from any counties parcel data and load it into Google Earth….it’s pathetic.

- Explorer has quering functions from both attributes table and a manual spatial selection now.

- More diversity of basemap content (GE does have the better array of aerials)…like National Geographic and USGS quad basemaps. One of the non-GIS techs at our company was trying to load up a supposed USGS quad kmz one time and I had to leave laughing.

By: shubha

shubha — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:52:20 +0000

i want to know…which frontend and backend in used by both the services i.e. google maps and arcgis

By: jerie

jerie — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:33:01 +0000

Please im faced with a hectic task here,
Im been asked 2 compare and contrast the role of desktop GIS application such as ESRI ArcGIS and Virtual Globes such as Google maps in any application dormain of my choice.

Im also been asked to explain and exemplify what each form of GIS has been used to do in terms of geodata managment,spatial analysis and Geovisualisation and the socio-technical context that places limitations on their performace!

Kindly assist anyway you can, email ajagunjeremiah@ymail.com

Thanks

By: cory fehl

cory fehl — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:45:36 +0000

great article. very interesting, answered my questions in 2 min.

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BlinkGeo » Tenacious Tuesday Link Karma - 03-25-2008 — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:45:52 +0000

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