Esri just released ArcGIS Earth Mobile 1.0
Part of the esri geospatial cloud, ArcGIS Earth mobile is the new handheld 3D ArcGIS experience. ArcGIS Earth mobile let’s you explore anywhere on Earth to display data, add placemarks, perform interactive analysis, and add your own annotations. Download the ArcGIS Earth mobile application from Google Play or the App Store.
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Log into your ArcGIS account to start adding data to the map. Search for data from your Portal Content, local files, or add data via URL. While online, you can access all your usual ArcGIS resources like web scenes, map services, image services, scene services, and feature services.
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Connect with your Portal Content to add saved scenes in real time. Easily remove unwanted data with the click of a button, adding new layers at will. Here we’ve added our moon scene to the map, which drops moon basemap tiles over the Earth.
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Our moon web scene also has some moon nomenclature associated with the data. Let’s toggle the visibility on, then explore a few data points on the map. Clicking a point on the map will zoom into the chosen data point, and provide a popup of information associated with that data point. Once we’re done exploring data points, simply click the home icon to return to the default map extent.
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The ArcGIS Earth Mobile experience lets you pick your favorite basemap to compliment your data. The app also offers the ability to add a placemark to the map. Click the icon in the bottom middle of the screen to open up further map options, where the rightmost icon lets you add a placemark. Move the map until you’ve pinpointed the ideal placemark position, then hit the add button. From here we can further interact with the added placemark – change the icon size and color, or move the placemark to an entirely new location.
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ArcGIS Earth Mobile 1.0 offers some great 3D mapping tools to investigate an environment. Let’s zoom into the tallest mountain on Earth for a closer look at these tools. Once again opening our tool set, let’s select the ruler icon. The measurement tool offers three separate tools – Point, Line of Sight, and Viewshed. Let’s test out the line of sight tool to visualize the line of site from our chosen vantage point. After choosing our starting point, moving the line of sight tool around will yield red or green lines, which represent a clear or blocked line of sight.
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The viewshed tool is extremely versatile, with a variety of angles and distances to factor in. Change the horizontal & vertical angles, adjust your heading, tilt, viewing distance, and height. All these options let you fully determine the viewshed settings.
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The ArcGIS Earth Mobile app also gives you the power to create tours based on image locations. Let’s take a brief tour of San Diego created with existing images from my phone. Each image has embedded location information, which ArcGIS Earth pulls out to place a point on the map. The map tour functionality runs itself with the click of a button. Simply add your photos and let the app do the rest!
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