I received yet another update from Google yesterday regarding the demise of Google Earth Plus. I appreciate that they are going through the trouble of reiterating my options. I’m going with the free route right now, having installed Google Earth 5.0 but that’s it. Here is how Google summarized my options: As a valued Google [...]
It seemed like we were on version 4.3 for forever, but yesterday Google released version 5.0 of Google Earth. You can download the new version here. New features in version 5 include historic imagery where available, an ocean layer including bathymetry, and the ability to create personalized, narrated tours that you can share with others. [...]
From arcscripts.esri.com: This Arcview extension provides a dialog-based tool to simplify the currently selected shapes in a polyline or polygon shapefile. This tool is used to generalize, or weed out, vertices that do not add to the desired level of detail in the geometry. A tolerance is specified to check whether or not vertices should [...]
From the Minnesota DNR web site: This extension was built to provide users the ability to directly transfer data between Garmin GPS handheld receivers and various GIS software packages. Using this program a user can use point features (graphics or shapefile) and upload them to the GPS as Waypoints. Line and Polygon Graphics or shapes [...]
Download AddXY v1.0 Here AddXY (v1.0) is an ArcView extension that should work with ArcView 3.0 and later. It adds the X and Y values of points (shapefiles or coverages) to their attribute tables. It adds the X and Y values of polygon centroids (shapefiles or coverages) to their attribute tables. It will add the [...]
Download Batch Define Projection Here from arcscripts.esri.com: This Python (v2.1) script will add or replace projection information for the all feature classes/shapefiles a user-specified directory based on the projection of a specified feature class/shapefile. This was possible in ArcGIS Desktop 8.3 and ArcView 3.x, but cannot be done out-of-the-box with ArcGIS Desktop 9.0. The download [...]
Download the ResMap ECW Plug-in Here From ResMap.com: This FREE plugin enables ArcPad 6.0 to open ECW and remote ResMap images (ECWP). "ESRI’s ArcPad TM software is a mobile geographic information system (GIS). ArcPad provides database access, mapping, GIS, and global positioning system (GPS) integration to users out in the field via handheld and mobile [...]
Google obviously got an earful about killing Google Earth Plus and sent me updated email just one day after their original email. After a considerable amount of negative feedback about pulling the import and tracking features from all versions of Google Earth except for the $400 Pro Version, Google will soon provide these features in [...]
I purchased Google Earth Plus so I could utilize my real-time GPS cursor in Google Earth. Along with a combination of other plugins and data, it was almost like I had a full-blown GIS system running. Well, I got an email today from Google stating that they were discontinuing Google Earth Plus. Here are a [...]
I still have a lot of spatial data that was created using ESRI ArcView 3.x, and I continue to use 3.x because I have a wealth of extensions that do the things I need to do. One problem with creating shapefiles with 3.x is that projection files (.prj) are not automatically created along with the [...]
