ArcGIS Earth Functionality

[RomaHicks]

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?

[DanPatterson_Retired]

Have you seen the docs? 

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

[RomaHicks]

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.

[DanPatterson_Retired]

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.

[JoshuaBixby]

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. 

[BenTan]

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)

[JoshuaBixby]

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.

[BenTan]

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.

[JoshuaBixby]

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. 

[BenTan]

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

Have a nice weekend!