Sometimes Google Earth is the easiest choice for creating simple data features, especially when it comes to teaching a non-GIS user how to do so. Aside from the expectation that someone obtains, installs, and understands how to move around in ArcGIS, the readily available imagery in Google Earth just seems ample enough to create new data sets.
After creating the KML files in GoogleEarth, you may need to bring the data into ArcGIS by converting the KML to shapefile. Even better yet, you may need to convert existing shapefile data into KML format fo viewing in Google Earth. Here are some coversion tools that are worth looking into.
For purchase
- KMLer
- FME 2007
Free scripts for ArcGIS
Let me know if I forgot anything else that might help.
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on Aug 27th, 2009 at 6:44 am
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