2006-11-18 03:24:18 · 2 answers · asked by Almaz T 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
It should be possible to save the image and open it as a raster file, although the quality may not be as high. You would also have to register the image manually which can take some time and may cause greater error. If you do this, make sure the projection is correct!
2006-11-18 09:12:01 · answer #1 · answered by jezmek 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on if it is raster or vector based. But, Google Earth stuff is KML (Keyhole Markup Language) based. I have taken some of my maps and run the ESRI KML tool (samples, I believe) and locally displayed them on Goolge Earth. I have not tried to reverse engineer KML to something Arc can read. I did find the following thread on the ESRI website to a Russian website touting a toolbox script called KMLer. It appears that (in theory) it may reverse engineer KML so Arc can read it.
Be careful if you try it. It may change things you don't want changed.
FYI - Google Earth uses WGS84 for its data projection, which kinda makes sense. Now weather data downloaded from Google Earth brings the projection with it or not, will have to be tested.
Good luck!
2006-11-18 18:32:06 · answer #2 · answered by Tom-PG 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋