topic Re: ArcGIS Earth Functionality in ArcGIS Earth Questions

ArcGIS Earth Functionality

RomaHicks — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 14:33:52 GMT

Will Earth support Layer Packages (*.lpk)?

Support the rendering of feature labels?

We use Explorer Desktop in production as we handle sensitive data that web portals are not appropriate for use. It is kind of bad form that Explorer Desktop was retired and Earth's functionality makes it only slightly better than toy software.

Is there a ticket centre, road map, mailing list, etc. that shows progression of the development of this software?

Re: ArcGIS Earth Functionality

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 17:17:52 GMT

Have you seen the docs?

http://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-earth/

Re: ArcGIS Earth Functionality

RomaHicks — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 19:03:29 GMT

Yeah, I have searched the little bit of documentation, gis.SE, and Googled every way I could think. Any case the official documentation speaking nothing about labeling (which would be most important to me). KML hacking could get the labels from what I have found, but that is not ideal.

Re: ArcGIS Earth Functionality

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 21:48:26 GMT

it is largely a viewer, it sounds like you are looking for data processing capabilities. Those sorts of things are for the paid software offerings.

Re: ArcGIS Earth Functionality

JoshuaBixby — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 22:13:14 GMT

Even with Esri's paid software, road maps of any kind are basically nonexistent. For ArcGIS Pro, Esri has been trying to put some very high-level road map stuff in GeoNet, but it is far from extensive information.

Re: ArcGIS Earth Functionality

BenTan — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 04:27:29 GMT

Hi Roma, Thanks for your feedbacks.

Supporting layer packages is under consideration. (Issues about it are in the future release plan)
ArcGIS Earth will support the rendering of labels in the near future. (We need fix some bugs related to it)

Re: ArcGIS Earth Functionality

JoshuaBixby — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 14:24:30 GMT

Ben Tan‌, you seem to be in-the-know with ArcGIS Earth. Any plans for the development team to set up something similar to https://community.esri.com/community/gis/applications/arcgis-pro/blog/2017/07/10/arcgis-pro-roadmap ? If not, I strongly encourage it.

Re: ArcGIS Earth Functionality

BenTan — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 02:10:33 GMT

Hi, Joshua. I am a developer in ArcGIS Earth team. I have told your suggestion to others in the team.

We currently don't have a public road map like you mentioned above.

Thanks for the good suggestions!

We will set up one after arranging the materials about it.

Re: ArcGIS Earth Functionality

JoshuaBixby — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 15:11:19 GMT

Ben, thanks for the prompt reply, much appreciated. If you do set up a high-level road map of sorts for ArcGIS Earth, I suggest using a "Document" instead of a "Blog" for sharing the information. The ArcGIS Pro team decided to use a blog, but I find it rather messy for several reasons covered in the comments to their road map blog.

Re: ArcGIS Earth Functionality

BenTan — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 05:50:28 GMT

Hi Joshua. Thanks for your suggestion again. We got it now.

Have a nice weekend!

Re: ArcGIS Earth Functionality

Mandy_Li — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 02:17:54 GMT

Hi Joshua, it's indeed helpful for ArcGIS Earth users to get an idea of our general product plan and also let them know what to expect in the few coming releases. We have been constantly delivering this to our clients too. A public high-level road map document could be another useful approach. Will consider adding it somewhere. Thanks for your suggestions!