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Using Google Maps with ArcMap 10

DanielLunsford1 — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:37:15 GMT

I am a college student using the evaluation version of ArcMap 10 for a project.

I would like to pull in Google Maps imagery into my ArcMap 10 maps. I understand that this can be done, but my question is: how? I'm a beginning ArcMap user and a lot of the Help items I've read through seem to be dead end: that is, I follow the directions on how to add tools, but the tool I am told to add isn't where the Help article says it should be... is it because I have an evaluation copy?

Can anyone direct me to a newbie-friendly, step-by-step instructions on how to do this? Or, can anyone point me toward a free source of detailed aerial maps that ArcMap can work with directly? I've found some USGS maps but they are all far too large scale to do me any good- I need to see individual buildings in some detail, well enough to get a decent measure of their footprint in square feet.

Re: Using Google Maps with ArcMap 10

JoshuaCrough — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:45:01 GMT

On your Add Data button just choose "Add Base Map" amd you can add Bing Maps to your display.

Re: Using Google Maps with ArcMap 10

Robert_LeClair — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:55:27 GMT

Daniel - Google Base map imagery is a much requested addition to the Base Map gallery and has been added to the ArcGIS Ideas webpage. It's currently marked as "Under Consideration." You can vote for this idea at: http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=087300000008GlnAAE

Hope this helps!

Robert LeClair
Esri-Denver

Re: Using Google Maps with ArcMap 10

SimonKettle — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 12:24:32 GMT

I think it would be worthwhile finding out what the pros and cons are when comparing Bing maps and Google maps...in my opinion Bing maps work just fine (although both have small errors of accuracy and Bing Maps are of low resolution in areas outside of highly populated regions like Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia) however, Google as a brand has captivated the market for world coverage of aerial imagery and alot of qustions on this forum as ask how can I use it Google Maps in ArcMap?

But does Google really have 'better' imagery? or system?

Cheers,

Re: Using Google Maps with ArcMap 10

ForrestEnglish — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:30:43 GMT

If you need aerial imagery in the USA, I suggest using the USDA NAIP images. They're available from the NRCS geospatial data gateway. http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/

It's pretty decent stuff.

Re: Using Google Maps with ArcMap 10

thadwester — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:32:42 GMT

Most people are familiar with google maps and thats why they want to use it. In the United States Bing imagery is superior, since they use digital globe 30cm imagery for the entire country while Google uses 1m imagery more often (especially rural areas).

dluns - the easiest way is just to use the basemaps provided by esri, which are already built into arc10.

Re: Using Google Maps with ArcMap 10

SimonKettle — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:46:11 GMT

Equally, if your not working within the USA...similar differences can be found with Google.

Imagery with Bing for Iraq and Iran is not so good (only getting imagery to 1:60000) but surprisingly Google Maps is excellent where even in the rural Zagros mountains I can see individual outcrops and camp sites.

It all depend on what you want and where and researching where the best free data is and utilising it (just make sure you reference where the data has come from!)

Re: Using Google Maps with ArcMap 10

MinottKerr — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:13:05 GMT

I think it would be worthwhile finding out what the pros and cons are when comparing Bing maps and Google maps...in my opinion Bing maps work just fine (although both have small errors of accuracy and Bing Maps are of low resolution in areas outside of highly populated regions like Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia) however, Google as a brand has captivated the market for world coverage of aerial imagery and alot of qustions on this forum as ask how can I use it Google Maps in ArcMap?

But does Google really have 'better' imagery? or system?

Cheers,

A colleague at work just now pointed us to the following article comparing Bing to Google, giving the edge to Bing:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/258328/google_maps_vs_bing_maps_a_showdown_of_satellite_images.html

mk

Re: Using Google Maps with ArcMap 10

BrianFlood — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:20:41 GMT

Arc2Earth Data Services allows you to bring Google imagery into ArcMap (we are a Google OEM partner) It now supports layout view and projections, and the monthly subscription price ($49/m US) is reasonable for small or large projects.

more info: http://arc2earth.com/services/data-services

Re: Using Google Maps with ArcMap 10

KevinEvringham — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:06:26 GMT

Has a solution been found to this? Bing maps are nice but quite frankly just having the most up-to-date map is whats important (at least for my projects). Google maps currently has the most up to date satellite picture by several months (or in the birds eye view on Bing by over 7 years) over Bing.

Re: Using Google Maps with ArcMap 10

JohnSobetzer — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:31:37 GMT

Another factor to consider is licensing. From Google Earth:

"If your business is looking to use Google Earth for any external purpose, you will need to license Google Earth Pro. Examples of external use include using imagery from Google Earth in reports and presentations or otherwise creating materials that will be displayed or distributed outside of your organization."

Often, however, the Google imagery for the US is from the NAIP program, which provides free county wide mosaics through the USDA Data Gateway, and often many state GIS sites will have that imagery (and others) available in different tiling formats for downloading, or in their own WMS services. GIS servers, such as the one at apfo.usda.gov also serve up NAIP imagery. ArcGIS online also has numerous imagery sources including NAIP.

Re: Using Google Maps with ArcMap 10

hoangnguyen_long — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 06:11:44 GMT

the tool can down here http://www.mediafire.com/download/d0xr4bdid5594nn/ArcGoogleSetup.zip, pls: gis2cad@gmail.com for help

Re: Using Google Maps with ArcMap 10

MichaelCarson4 — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 14:31:30 GMT

I tried that tool. I am using ArcMap 10.1. The tool works for about 8 minutes, then ArcMap freezes and closes. I start a new ArcMap session and the same thing happens. Too bad, this tool is helpful if it works.

Re: Using Google Maps with ArcMap 10

hoangnguyen_long — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 03:46:55 GMT

the tool can down here http://www.mediafire.com/download/d0xr4bdid5594nn/ArcGoogleSetup.zip, pls: gis2cad@gmail.com for help

update version here http://www.mediafire.com/download/se457579wv49khq/ArcGoogle2014.rar

Re: Using Google Maps with ArcMap 10

BrianFlood — Thu, 08 May 2014 19:19:02 GMT

The latest version Arc2Earth has some significant new Google Maps features

Basemaps - Satellite, Streets, Terrain and Labels are now served as local MapServer layers for the best possible integration in ArcMap

Streetview - A new embedded Streetview window with an easy to use Pegman tool. Overlay your own data on Streetview and, during an open edit session, you can collect point data from Streetview and it will stream in as new features.This is great for jump starting field data collection efforts where your assets are mostly along streets (e.g. signs, streetlamps, benches, water systems etc)

Oblique Maps - A new embedded window that displays your data over Google Oblique Maps (with 4 different angles)

Search - Native Find Window and Identify Tool support for worldwide Google geocoding

more info here:
https://accounts.arc2earth.com/docs/dataservices2

cheers
brian

Re: Using Google Maps with ArcMap 10

hoangnguyen_long — Mon, 12 May 2014 08:31:42 GMT

the tool can down here ArcGoogle 2014 http://www.mediafire.com/download/wyosevwmfftp48t/ArcGoogle2014.zip , if you have any quesion pls: gis2cad@gmail.com for help

http://www.mediafire.com/download/wyosevwmfftp48t/ArcGoogle2014.zip

Re: Using Google Maps with ArcMap 10

hoangnguyen_long — Mon, 12 May 2014 08:34:55 GMT

anh_like_em2002;384603 wrote:
update version here

http://www.mediafire.com/download/wyosevwmfftp48t/ArcGoogle2014.zip /QUOTE]

Re: Using Google Maps with ArcMap 10

hoangnguyen_long — Mon, 12 May 2014 08:40:42 GMT

the tool can down here http://www.mediafire.com/download/d0xr4bdid5594nn/ArcGoogleSetup.zip, pls: gis2cad@gmail.com for help

update version for 2014 here http://www.mediafire.com/download/wyosevwmfftp48t/ArcGoogle2014.zip

Re: Using Google Maps with ArcMap 10

hoangnguyen_long — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 09:07:07 GMT

update version for new arcgoogle 2014 here http://ungdungmoi.com/arcgoogle.htm

here http://ungdungmoi.com/arcgoogle.htm

Re: Using Google Maps with ArcMap 10

AMiller — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 17:24:02 GMT

I just wanted to add another note of a different color to this thread. In my observations, working in fairly high resolution mapping (scales between 1:10-1:5,000), Google earth imagery does not align totally well with high resolution data projected in NM state plane. I have observed this in comparing very accurate GPS data and also in comparing local 6 inch per pixel ortho-rectified imagery.
Thanks to person who posted article comparing Google and Bing maps, I look forward to reading that.