We have a long history with ArcGIS over the years. MediaGeotagger has a long history geotagging media and photography and you may recall it as PixPoint or GeoVideo in the Esri ArcMAP era communities. IsWhere is the evolution of those very early geotagging and FMV products on ArcGIS 9.xx and earlier. Actually an Esri Red Hen feature I wanted to share but decided to test a bit further is our IsWhere app.
Interestingly, an update of ArcGIS Earth grabbed the KMZ extension on a recent project I want to load on IsWhere. I was surprised that with a bit of jiggering around the current ArcGIS Earth release it looks like it has legs for FMV on ArcGIS Earth? We still are testing new stuff in the general ArcGIS Pro as received in the last weeks versus streaming services and VLC or Micorsoft Viewers. This is including looks like a most of the conforming 360 cameras via equirectangular MP4 formats with Facebook header metadata. And pushing a bit more and building a complex collect Arc Earth is in the works this and next week but you too are welcome to give it a go? On the moment, we are learning about how to populate ArcGis Earth with Pro layers and leveage the Earth interface with our simplified FMV IsWhere viewing solution. We are also trying how Server might contribute to Earth as well if that makes sense? We are excited in all of these enabling innovations and like what we have heard on next steps for 3D Earth that Pro offers as well.
Anyway the good news is the style of media we fuse metadata into includes SPOI generated from several tools on PLAY and NGA GeoINT Apps Store - these tools generate Street View like content aka Mapillary for local use and or via the GeoVideoLIVE add-on of ArcGIS Server. The translator that creates MISB specified FMV uses the Par Government's FMV and other ISR tools that contributed features to the ArcGIS FMV. Par Government has been a long term source of excellence in the domain of FMV / ISR and these products are also in the Esri developer community. We endorse them as do others. As we regard Garmin, well "Garmin has been very, very good" for Red Hen over the decades. We have used VIRB and include them in the stack of cameras we support for their extended geospatial qualities for a very long time - we anticipate seeing more of this style of video listed on YouTube. We have presented near real time DJI via YouTubeLIVE as well. We think that is pretty neat and if IsWhere remains stable on ArcGIS Earth,we successfully populate layers from Pro and Server well that too is interesting.
We are about better camera usage for GIS purposes as THISR aka tactical handheld ISR. We like the ArcGIS Earth opportunity for the same.
Stay calm - we have some skill partner skills and products we want to share. Its on me to make sure we are clear.
The Oh, they places you will go! that IsWhere and GeoVideoLIVE may offer for ArcGIS Pro and Earth is good news. And watch for a really neat FMV 3D/360 offering toward late Fall is our guess. Wanted to share some insights we have on FMV - didn't mean to stomp about.
