Monday, January 12, 2009

Google Earth consuming KML from ArcGIS Server

Before including it as a technology recommendation within a spatial architecture, I ran a test of authoring a map from ArcGIS Desktop, serving it as KML via ArcGIS Server and consuming the KML service as a network link in Google Earth.

Other than an issue that arose when publishing the MXD on a shared drive, related to having used full (rather than relative) pathnames for data sources, the process ran very smoothly, and I commend ESRI on its KML support in ArcGIS Server document and the functionality it describes.

As for the issue mentioned above, that resulted in a somewhat cryptic "Unable to retrieve layers: Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error, I documented the solution in an ArcGIS Server Forum posting.

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