Suggestions about ArcGIS Earth

[xingming]

Hello,

Should I translate all below to English? Please tell me. Thanks!

我正在使用ArcGIS Earth 1.7beta，感觉越来越好用了，感谢esri开发了这么优秀的软件！

但我还是恳请开发人员在几个方面做出改进：

1. 在完全离线的情况下（甚至都不连接到本地的任何网络服务），使用当前版本在Search工具中直接输入经纬度（比如输入”123,23“）是没法直接定位到123,23这个坐标位置的。建议在任何情况下都能实现直接按经纬度定位的功能。

2. 好像ArcGIS Earth不能像ArcMap一样自动识别和兼容地理坐标系和投影坐标系，建议改进。

3. 好像ArcGIS Earth不能识别CGCS2000坐标系，建议考虑改进。

4. 当前版本中可以点住鼠标右键切换视角，但跟StrokesPlus这个软件不兼容（在StrokesPlus设置忽略ArcGIS Earth以后不起作用）。建议再提供点住鼠标中间切换视角的功能。

5. 在Google Earth中，可以通过ctrl/shift+鼠标滚轮 实现比较精准的视角控制（在某些演示场景中需要进行稳定、缓慢的视角调整，保持连贯），建议将该功能纳入ArcGIS Earth。

非常谢谢！

[XuewenZhang · Accepted solution]

Hi Xing,

Thanks for your feedback. You can get the V1.7 release from ArcGIS Earth | ArcGIS now.

It would be very nice if you can translate your question into English so that others might also benefit from your question.

1. ArcGIS Earth can search long/lat in a totally offline environment, maybe the Chinese comma was used?

2. ArcGIS Earth is a globe with the WGS84 coordinate system and can reproject other coordinate systems data on the fly.

3. It's similar to question 2. Could you also provide more information about this? Such as what data is used and what's the issue on your side? Thank you.

4. ArcGIS Earth will consider to let users change the shortcut keys in the future release.

Thanks,

Xuewen

[xingming]

Hi Zhang,

Thanks for your reply!

I just upgraded ArcGIS Earth to V1.7 release, and found "searching long/lat in a totally offline environment" works fine now.

In ArcGIS Earth V1.7 release, when the "Spatial Reference" in Settings is "Web Mercator", a TPK file whose spatial reference is "WGS_1984_Web_Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere" can be added normally. But if I change the "Spatial Reference" in Settings to "WGS 84", the TPK file can't be added and ArcGIS Earth shows a tip saying "The layer's tiling scheme can't be adjusted to align properly with the current Earth spatial reference".

Whatever the "Spatial Reference" in Settings is,

another TPK file whose spatial reference is "CGCS2000" can't be added and shows the same error tip.

PS: "建议再提供点住鼠标中间切换视角的功能。" "中间" should be "中键(middle key of mouse)". Sorry!

Thanks again!

[XuewenZhang]

Hi Xing,

Thank you. The error message for the TPK file with "WGS_1984_Web_Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere" is as design. But for the TPK file with CGCS2000 spatial reference, we will add it to our backlog.

Again, the other suggestions are really good, Thank you.

Thanks,

Xuewen