KML

[slingeman]

Has anyone used ArcGIS Server to publish a kml service and used it in
Google Earth? Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

[sb...@esri.com]

Keep in mind that you publish KML through Map Services, not 3D Globe
Services, even if you are publishing 3D data such as extruded
buildings.
So you'll end up copying the 3D layers from ArcGlobe over to an MXD
Map document to pubish the KML capability.

The doc also describes this,
http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisserver/9.2/dotNet/manager/publishing/kml_s
ervice.htm, but note that you can publish out the data as an image, or
overlay (basically a map export to image for a given extent) or you
can pull the vector features over as KML (this helps to support popups
for the data in Google Earth). The parameter setting to the URL that
you use for the KML\Map Service to control this is "composite=true" or
"composite=false".

Does this help?
Sam

[John Waterman - GCS]

With 9.3, you can access KMZ output for all ArcGIS Server services
(i.e. map services) via the REST API. Here is the Services Explorer
page hosted at ESRI for demonstrations:

http://sampleserver1.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services

Check out the Google Earth link here:
http://sampleserver1.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Demographics/ESRI_Census_USA/MapServer

This link exports results from an ArcGIS Server Geoprocessing task via
URL request. You can set the output to KMZ (or JSON):

http://sampleserver1.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Network/ESRI_DriveTime_US/GPServer/CreateDriveTimePolygonsDisks/execute?Input_Location=%7B+%22features%22++%3A+%5B%7B%22geometry%22+%3A+%7B%22x%22+%3A+-71.94455394495437%2C+%22y%22+%3A+44.58832120165241%7D%7D%5D%7D&Drive_Times=&env%3AoutSR=&env%3AprocessSR=&f=html

AND:

http://sampleserver1.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Specialty/ESRI_Currents_World/GPServer/MessageInABottle/execute?Input_Point=%7B+%22features%22++%3A+%5B%7B%22geometry%22+%3A+%7B%22x%22+%3A+%0D%0A-70.49269613978302%2C+%22y%22+%3A+43.34247054134402%7D%7D%5D%7D&Days=365&env%3AoutSR=&env%3AprocessSR=&f=html

Also, chech this PDF from the Dev Conference:
"Serving KML with ArcGIS Server 9.3"
http://edn.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.detail&downloadId=195

Best,
John

On May 8, 4:17 pm, slingeman <slinge...@gmail.com> wrote: