Declan Butler, reporter � Getting GIS data into Google Earth

good description of mashing data into KML files - however he points out the limitation of Google Earth with respect to analytical data and shape files which are ARC compatible (ESRI data sets) Manyone's Earth Portal is ESRI compatible. Meanwhile ESRI itself is scheduled to release in first quarter 2006 ArcGis Explorer, a free visualization tool, which is being billed by observers as a Google Earth killer, the screenshots, and comments from developers who have given it a tour, suggesting it does all that Google Earth does, but much, much, more — a Google Earth on steroids. Declan Butler, reporter � Getting GIS data into Google Earth