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Google Earth vs Google Maps: What’s the Difference?

Google Maps is for local navigation and routing. Whereas Google Earth has virtual trips and guided tours around the world.

Operational dashboards are management tools for tracking, analyzing, and displaying key metrics to get insights into data and decision-making.

ArcGIS Insights is the fusion of spatial analysis from GIS, data science (R and Python), and BI workflows which are all integrated into one place.

Spatial resolution is how detailed objects are in an image based on pixels. But spectral resolution is the amount of spectral detail in a band.

Story meet map. Story maps are an interactive way to display a particular event, issue, place, or trend with a focus on location.

Esri’s Living Atlas of the World is the largest curation of maps, apps, and data layers from authoritative providers around the world.

Here’s a list of non-geospatial tools we’ve all got secretly in our back pockets. It’s the functionality that GIS just isn’t cut out to do!

A Western Sahara map – the disputed region in the northwest of Africa with a reference map, satellite imagery, and an elevation map.

A map of the US Virgin Islands that features its groups of islands in the Caribbean Sea with satellite imagery, settlements, roads, and bays.

A map of Turks and Caicos that displays its islands in the Atlantic Ocean with satellite imagery, settlements, roads, points, and bays.