Digital Earth Weblog

James Fee points to some posts on the new ArcGIS Explorer product. It was demonstrated at the ESRI European User Conference today. I really hope we get to see it at OZRI next week. (OZRI is the Australian User Conference.)

Some things I’ll be interested in:

• The coverage and quality of the data provided by ESRI.
• Support for WMS and WFS (apparently the new ArcGIS Explorer supports WFS out-of-the-box, but ArcGIS Desktop doesn’t?)
• How open is it?
• Is it a “Google Earth killer“.
• The business model.

Update, 2005-10-29: David Maguire of ESRI has a