How to Open The Google Satellite Map in ESRI ArcMap

Have you ever tried to open the Google Satellite Map in ESRI ArcMap? If you are interested in this method, you will like this post. This article is talking about the easy way to finish it. There are some simple steps you can follow. Keep reading please!

Step 1:Download and install Maps Downloader For Google Satellite.Install ESRI ArcGIS, the version can be 9.3,10.0 or 10.1, here we take 10.2 as an example. If you have not install this software, you can Google it.

Step 2:Download Maps:First we need to download the Google Satellite Map, here we take New York for example.Launch Maps Downloader For Google Satellite, enter " New York".

Click the "Search" button, and then choose” Select By Polygon”, you can choose any regions you want to download.

After choosing the region, double click the left mouse, it will display “ New Task”.

In the Level list , you can choose any level , but generally we select 19 urban , suburban choose 16 is an ideal choice, but before choosing the level you'd better to see whether the level you want to download has the data when browse the online map. Here we take 17 level as an example.After selecting the level , click OK to start downloading.

After download completely, the dialog box will pop up immediately and you will be asked whether want to export the picture. Select" Yes", then will display "Export |Mosaic to Images", as shown below.

In this dialog box , do not need to make any settings, click the " Output" button to the default parameter data can be exported.Default export path is "D: \ SGDownload \ New York _ splicing [ default ] _L17", because it is uncompressed TIF files, it's large.

Step 3 Open the mapLaunch ArcMap, click the "+" button, add the downloaded satellite map, as shown below.

In order to make it more smoothly zoom in ArcMap, when asked if you want to create pyramid, click on the "YES", as shown below.

After a period of time created it will be displayed in ArcMap " New York" in full view , as shown below.

When downloading pictures, it automatically filtered out the pictures that beyond the boundaries, the map without picture is black, it looks bad. If the picture you exported is black, it will be solved.ArcMap has the function of setting transparence, so this problem will be solved easily.Click on the right of the layer, select "Properties" in the pop-up menu. As the following picture.

Choose "Symbology" tab in the dialog box, and then select "Display Background Value" (the default will be black and transparent)

Click "OK", complete setting, the background becomes will be transparent. Now, you can freely zoom in ArcMap, and overlay the data.If you want to have a try, you can download it or contact me info@arceyessoft.com I really hope you can enjoy this tutorial.