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Google IO Recap

We had a very successful Google IO this year, many thanks to Google for inviting us to the Geo Developer Sandbox. Thanks also to everyone who stopped by, I have to admit there were a lot more “traditional GIS” folks there then I initially expected. As for those who had no idea what GIS was [...]

New Version, Data Services

A new version of Arc2Earth has been released! You can read about the changes here or go directly to the downloads page to get the latest installer. Arc2Earth Data Services Data Services is a new product for use with Arc2Earth Desktop. It allows you to display Google Maps Street and Imagery data directly in ArcMap [...]

Google IO 2011

Google IO 2011, their annual developer extravaganza, is right around the corner and Arc2Earth was lucky enough to be selected as a Developer Sandbox attendee. We’ll be in the Geo area of the sandbox both days, talking about all things Arc2Earth and Google. Come on by to talk shop or just say hi! Additionally, I’ll [...]

Arc2Cloud – Uploading Data

Arc2Cloud is our multi-tenant cloud solution for users who do not want to setup or maintain anything. You can get an Arc2Earth Cloud instance running on your own Google AppEngine account but for many of users, even this was too much overhead. You’ll still get your own logon, security and data configuration and enjoy all [...]

Arc2Earth Turns 5

It’s hard to believe what started out as an afternoon project to convert ArcGIS data into KML turned into something I’m still working on five years later. So first and foremost, I’d like to thank all of our users, ESRI for a great developer platform, Google for blowing the lid off geospatial and everyone else [...]

New Version – Fusion Tables, Data Services and much more

We just released a new version of Arc2Earth today, it contains a lot of bug fixes and new features. Below are some of the highlights but you can get the entire list of changes here. We’ll be at the ESRI FedUC next week in NewLight Technologies booth if you want to stop by and chat [...]

Arc2Earth in Italian Telecoms

Mapping Anywhere, our EMEA distributor, has recently closed deals with two Italian telecom companies for enterprise access to Arc2Earth V3. Make sure to visit them at the upcoming ESRI EMEA Conference in Italy! Telecom Italia Sparkle purchased an Enterprise site license for all of their ArcGIS users WIND purchased 90+ seats of Arc2Earth Pro for [...]

Ubisense myWorld Demo

Peter Batty from Ubisense has put together some great videos from his conference tour and for a demo product they’ve built to display SmallWorld data on Google Maps. The myWorld application uses an Arc2Earth Cloud for both storage and search. His thoughts on building simple user interfaces and leveraging the Cloud are very insightful, well [...]

New Build Released – ArcGIS 10.0 and Google Features

We released another build of Arc2Earth V3 today. It has a lot of bug fixes but it also has some larger feature additions that a lot of users have been waiting on. Below are the major feature additions. The complete list can be found here Download our Free Community Edition and try out the new [...]

New Map Tile Creation Tools

ArcGIS Server Cache Format We added support for creating tile caches that use the ArcGIS Cache Format so you can copy an A2E caches directly to an AGS cache location. (more information) Automatic Change Detection Our new Automatic Change Detection can dramatically reduce the time it takes to maintain Map Tile Caches when subsequent edits [...]