David Rumsey Collection of Historical Maps available in Google Earth

David Rumsey Collection of Historical Maps Available in Google Earth

November 12th, 2006 · 7 Comments · ArcGIS Explorer, ESRI, GIS, Google, Google Earth

Frank points out that the Rumsey Historical Maps are available now as new feature content in Google Earth.

ArcGIS Explorer has had this layer “coming soon” for quite some time (though it was active at the 2006 User Conference).

Shame the development of ArcGIS 9.2 has taken so long as this layer seems to have given Jonathan Crowe an early Christmas present. The uniqueness of ArcGIS Explorer seems to get smaller and smaller every passing week.

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1 Michael Tucker // Nov 12, 2006 at 4:55 pm

James, your point is right now. ESRI continues to work using rules that became obsolete back in 1999.

ESRI gave my city a demo of AGX almost 2 years ago and here we are still waiting for the darn thing.

I think the users have moved beyond AGX, but has ESRI?
2 Ryan Arp // Nov 12, 2006 at 5:56 pm

I’ve been waiting to see those layers for a while as well.
3 hablandodesigs » Blog Archive » Mapas Históricos en Google Earth // Nov 13, 2006 at 12:28 am

[...] Tal como menciona James Free en su blog, ese layer ya estaba activo dentro de los que ofrecía ArcGIS Explorer en su sitio, pero desgraciadamente el retraso en la liberación del producto le quita otro punto mas a ESRI en la batalla por ofrecer contenido innovador. [...]
4 Rob // Nov 13, 2006 at 8:16 am

Patience is a virtue, when AGX arrives in the New Year it will give you a lot more than GE, most importantly, a better customization framework and a robust SLA.
5 anon // Nov 13, 2006 at 9:10 am

Hey Rob, either you are not a beta tester or you are just being sarcastic.

$40,000 to actually use that framework for geoprocessing is a joke and AGX is slower than AOL dialup.
6 capone // Nov 13, 2006 at 10:08 am

I find it humorus that Google Earth seems to be the “official” application of Geography week. The ESRI website is silent to AGX.

There has been a shift away from ESRI and toward GE for learning about geography (not that ESRI was ever really good at it).
7 Google Earth - Rumsey Historical Maps « Visible Procrastinations // Nov 14, 2006 at 2:04 am

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