KML Layers are not drawing in ArcGIS Earth 1.13.0.3216

[BillSmith]

This KML used to draw in ArcGIS Earth, but not anymore.

I can see it in Google Earth, so I believe the KML is well formed.

For the RoadL layer, one feature out of 43 does draw. (strange)

If I click on the feature it will highlight, and the attribute dots appear if I turn on the attribute layer, so they are there.  The properties shows the line width as 2 which mean it should draw.

I'm attaching the KML and a couple of screen shots.  I am really puzzled by this one.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.e

[Sharon_MU · Accepted solution]

Hi @BillSmith ,

Thanks for reaching out to us !

I downloaded the data you provided, and tested on my end.  I found the datasets are constructed with time stamps. ArcGIS Earth recognizes the time-enabled datasets with a time slider at the bottom of the viewport. 

In ArcGIS Earth, only the data with timestamps in the current time slot (the blue bar) appears on the viewport by default,  rather than the whole dataset.  

In the KML dataset (harbor-quickmdb_RoadL_1297098179.zip),  the time range is from year 1899 to year 1969 according to the display on the timeslider.  The default interval is too tiny to show all the polylines at a time.  That may be why you encountered this issue.

I would suggest adjusting "Move by Interval" to a larger number (click the gear button), e.g., 10 years.  The polylines almost fall in the last 10 years.  Alternatively, you could drag the start point and end point of the Current Interval bar to adjust the interval.

Please found the screenshot below:

Hope it helps ! have fun.

please feel free to connect us if any further question.

Sharon

[BillSmith]

Thank you Sharon!

[BillSmith]

While this is nice to have a time analysis function in AE, it shouldn't be the default.  This is an old ESRI dataset that I have used for testing for years.  I forgot there was even a date-time attribute in the data.  The user should have to setup which attribute they want time analysis done on.  I'm sure some Product Owner was excited about introducing the feature and it may be buried in a release note, but myself and a member of my test team wasted a couple of days tracing down how we broke our KML output.  It is not intuitive for a normal user.  Now do we put a release note out about exporting to AE?  Frustrated.