On the other hand, some of the limitations I've found are:Ī) It can supposedly consume arcgis geocoders/geolocators but I've never read of anyone actually being able to successfully implement this functionality, and indeed I've tried myself with no success. I've had multiple datasets, each with 50,000+ features, all displaying correctly, at the same time, in ArcGIS Explorer Desktop.
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It seems from what I can gather that maybe some original versions of ArcGIS Explorer had a limit of 10,00 on the number of features from any dataset that could be displayed, but this is not a limitation as far as I can tell anymore. This is somewhat of a limitation in that, without you coding your own plugins, I don't know of a way for it to perform complex analysis without server based GP tools, but there is the fact that it has the ability to do complex analysis at all.Īlso, when having a similar conversation previously with various people, it has been repeatedly been brought up to me about a feature limit they thought existed in ArcGIS Explorer. and all I do is save out those layer files and the users have access to that data live from the layer file's data-source.Īlso, explorer can consume ArcGIS Tools published as services on an ArcGIS server. I have gone in and set up a number of layer files in ArcMap, some using definition queries, some using rather complex labeling configurations, etc. Even without coding, they have a nice administrative side built in that lets you configure toolbar layouts, options/tools/functionality available to each user, program defaults, and other application customizations that can be configured to give different users different access to various tools and/or make the program even easier to use by limiting unneeded functionality from the interface.Ībove and beyond all that though, personally one of the most useful abilities of Explorer to me and my org is it's ability to read directly from SDE database/file geodatabases using standard ArcMap generated layer files. It can consume a wide variety of GIS datasets and, if you are comfortable with their APIs there is the potential for you to build a wide variety of customized plug-ins for it.
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It has a relatively wide variety of capabilities compared to at least what I'd expect for a free program from a commercial software company like ESRI. It is a very useful program for me and my organization.
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I'll be honest, I don't know Google Earth Pro at all really.