ArcGIS Online Detailed Imagery and Street Overlay Added for the United States
Boy it has been a busy day, but one more huge item to post about. In support of the ArcGIS Explorer release yesterday ArcGIS Online ESRI has pushed out the 2D and 3D maps with their detailed image map service.
This week marks the completion of a high-resolution imagery layer for the United States in both 2D and 3D. The layer includes i-cubed Nationwide Prime 1m or better resolution imagery for the contiguous United States. I-cubed Nationwide Prime is a seamless, color mosaic of various commercial and government imagery sources, including Aerials Express 2-foot imagery for metropolitan areas and the best available USDA NAIP imagery and enhanced versions of USGS DOQQ imagery for other areas.
Here is the view of downtown Tempe in ArcMap. I’d throw up a Globe view but all our 3D Analyst licenses are being used right now.
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Very nice. I’m impressed with the speed of accessing the imagery. I just exported an animation in ArcGlobe using the globe service very painlessly, with great results.
http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/category/esri/arcgis-explorer/
Interest timeline.
Any idea if ArcGIS Online will remain free, or will they start changing for it like ArcWeb Services? Speaking of ArcWeb, are they going to fold those map services into ArcGIS Online?
I believe the plan is to charge for ArcGIS Online. I’m not sure how much or which services will cost money and I believe ESRI hasn’t made that decision either. I’d bet the imagery will cost ya.
Yes, I could see that. But, what would that mean for AGX? Would they still offer the free 1m imagery for the US for use in AGX, but charge for the same service in ArcGIS Desktop?
ArcGIS Online will cost no matter where you use it, but I’m sure the “default” AGX layers will be free. The 1m USA is the default layer so I assume it will remain free. If you add ArcGIS Online layers using the “add content” funtion, I’m sure you’ll have to pay.
At the UC today Jack said ArcGIS Online will be free to ArcGIS Desktop users.