The control scheme is solid, though there’s no SpaceNavigator support because it only runs in a browser. Still, the overall look of the cities is great! They’ve done a very nice job, and the coverage is quite extensive. The only downside to Ovi’s 3D city technique is that many buildings appear to be melting, as shown here. It launched with 20 cities, many of which also include StreetView-like views in some areas. The result is an amazing level of detail that includes buildings, trees, and even accurate highway overpasses, as seen in the image above. The images are generated by C3, who creates them by taking up to 100 images of a single location, and then automatically generating the 3D textures from it. However, Nokia has recently launched Ovi Maps 3D, and it’s a strong competitor to Google Earth - at least in terms of visuals. You could even add each as a layer to one web map, then once added to ArcMap and Pro, you can turn each on or off as needed.With Microsoft Bing Maps dropping their 3D support, it seemed that Google Earth might be the only 3D option in town. Select “A Tile Layer” from the pulldown menu. Once logged in, open a new web map then click on Add and select “Add Layer from Web”. To do this, you need an ArcGIS Online account. Building on that example, I was able to do the same for ArcMap and Pro, but in a round about way.

In late 2019 I did find a way to add Google Maps to QGIS 3. For a government agency, replacing authoritative GIS data with crowd sourced data might not be a good idea.īack in early 2014, I took a look at adding Google Maps to ArcMap using some available programs/add-ins, but all were disappointing. So you want to add Google Maps to ArcMap or Pro? Impossible you say? Well here is an early Christmas present just for you … yes you can!īefore you proceed, think about why you would want a crowd sourced Google Maps basemap in your GIS anyway? There are better solutions today, like the basemaps provided by ESRI or even your own creations.

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