ArcGIS Online (and ArcGIS Explorer) Adds New Imagery in Europe

By James Fee | Published: July 9, 2007

ArcGIS Online (and since ArcGIS Explorer uses ArcGIS Online as its source) has begun to add better imagery for Europe.

[S]atellite imagery for part of Europe has now been added to ArcGIS Online. This imagery has a resolution of 2.5 meters per pixel and covers most of France and parts of adjacent countries. Look for additional coverage to be published later this summer.

I’ll be honest, I don’t think is as good as I would have expected (at least compared to the imagery we get in the USA), but it is a start. The more that is added will only help make ArcGIS Explorer more useful for everyone.

The easiest way to get a look at this new imagery is to go download ArcGIS Explorer and take it for a spin.

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4 Comments

  1. David
    Posted July 9, 2007 at 7:20 pm | Permalink

    James,

    When you say, ‘The more that is added will only help make ArcGIS Explorer more useful for everyone.’, is this really true.

    Isn’t the ESRI ArcGIS Online data only legal for ‘non-commercial use’ when used through ArcGIS Explorer?

    That is what I get from, http://arcgisonline.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=faqs.home#q2

  2. James Fee
    Posted July 9, 2007 at 9:03 pm | Permalink

    From what I’ve been told you can pretty much throw that out for when ArcGIS Online goes “final”.

    ArcGIS Explorer is different than ArcGIS Online so I don’t believe even if that “non-commercial” were to stand for the final that AGX would be affected.

    I’ve been told by multiple people at ESRI that ArcGIS Online will be available for commercial uses with Desktop (but Server will have to be licensed).

  3. Oren Gabay
    Posted July 10, 2007 at 2:35 am | Permalink

    Will the new ESRI ArcExplorer work on Linux?

  4. Andrew Bailey
    Posted July 10, 2007 at 5:30 am | Permalink

    Your eyes aren’t fooling you; 2.5 meter resolution isn’t as good as what you’re seeing for the US. Most US urban areas have been flown with 6-to-8 inch resolution photography.

    Maybe I’m being a bit picky, but it irks me a bit that all these online mapping services pass the imagery off as “satellite” imagery, when almost all of the high-res stuff is aircraft-based.

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