Microsoft Virtual Earth to Be Offered With ESRI’s ArcGIS Online Servic(microsoft.com)

submitted by crpietschmann(11.3k) 3 years, 9 months ago

Microsoft Corp. and ESRI today announced that ESRI ArcGIS users will have access to the robust mapping and imagery content provided by the Microsoft Virtual Earth platform inside ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Server. With Virtual Earth seamlessly integrated into ArcGIS 9.3 Desktop, ArcGIS users are now able to easily add base maps, which feature rich aerial and hybrid views, to perform data creation, editing, analysis, authoring and map publishing with one-click access. read more...

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Showing ESRI Shapefile Layers on a Virtual Earth Map: a simple HowTo(geekswithblogs.net)

submitted by marcoanastasi(265) 4 years, 1 month ago

If you've ever tried to find a way to display an ESRI ShapeFile on a Virtual Earth map, you'll have probably noticed how little information there is on the Internet about how to accomplish this apparently arduous task. With the technique described in this article, you're going to be able to not only display Shapefiles as layers on Virtual Earth, but also interact with them in countless ways: extract data from them, show data associated with a shape when you click on it on the map, even modify or create new Shapefiles. read more...

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