Arc2Earth V2 was released today! Head on over to http://www.arc2earth.com to upgrade or http://www.arc2earth.net/cs to download the new Trial version.
Here’s a quick list of What’s New
Exporter
• New Formats – KML, KMZ, GeoRSS (Simple), GeoRSS (GML), GeoJson
• Saved target location for automated exports
• File Comments – Add custom comments or copyright to every file created
• Atom Name and Link Support
• Amazon S3 Storage – Store all of your exported files on S3 automatically
• KML 2.2 Schema Support
• Additional labeling options
• Field Formatting using ArcMap’s built-in support
• Custom Time Formats for KML TimeStamps
• KML Region Support
o Vector Data
o Raster Data
o Vector Data as raster tiles
• Extra KML – Add custom KML tags to export
o Document
o Individual Layers
• Many bug fixes
Importer
• Completely rewritten
• Import KML, KMZ, GeoRSS (Simple), GeoRSS (GML), AtomPub
• Downloads all nested KML Network Links
• Import an entire folder of files at once
• Import Ground Overlays – downloaded and georeferenced automatically
• Add/Update/Delete on an existing featureclass (PGDB or SDE)
• Import KML 2.2 Schema
• Schema Templates – used to parse Placemark Description text into attribute data
• Extra AtomPub/RSS data automatically added to individual attribute fields
Tile Exporter
• New image formats (PNG32, PNG24, PNG8*, Jpeg)
• Advanced KML Superoverlay options
o Mixed image formats
o Mixed image sizes, final layer contains highest resolution
o Visibility of first and final levels is configurable
o Level skipping – remove additional levels to optimized display
• Antialias tile drawing
• Configuration file viewer scripts location
• Updated Inclusion Mask – optimized for large extents
• Many bug fixes
Enterprise Scheduler
• Schedule Imports, Vector Exports (KML, KMZ, GeoRSS) and Tile Exports
• Command Line options for all imports/exports
• Post job scripts
• Chained Jobs – run one job after another completes (ex: import, process, export)
• Run multiple Jobs at the same time
• Many bug fixes
General
• New Toolbar and Menus – simplified
• New License Manager – Upgradeable licenses
