We were just talking about this at work last week, in the context of getting free imagery and importing it into GIS for additional work. I have a co-worker who is doing some maps for her Historical Archeology professor, and needs low-cost imagery of Egypt for custom maps. If you don’t need 3m resolution, this might be a good solution.
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After digging in a little further, you have to pony up $99 for a single-user license to get this extension. Worth it if you need access to the imagery…I think XTools has a similar feature for getting KML/KMZ files into an Arcmap environment, but that’s even more expensive.
Has anyone out there used this yet? It looks like it’s free competition to ESRI’s MobileGIS, which they make available to Advanced Enterprise users.
I don’t have a Blackberry, but I’m curious to know if this can be bashed to create or edit data - ie, taking points, editing tabular data, etc. It would be a great way for a municipality to spatially enable say, an entire public safety department.
Someone get this slime mold a name-badge! Benefits start at 90 days, coffee’s in the breakroom.
This is a fantastic idea! What I want out of these kinds of application is to move beyond an interactive toy and into the realm of driving public works projects. If nothing else, a planning firm could use the data generated by this to save a whole lot of time and money.
This isn’t a surprise for anyone, but I’ve frankly found my Verizon cellphone to be a more reliable source of GPS coordinates than a $750 Trimble. Now, if we could get a decent mobile-friendly GIS app that would let me export shapefiles and play nicely with ArcView…
