In the upper right corner of the ArcGIS Earth interface, there are additional navigation controls. Four options are provided: Rotate, Pitch, Far, and Near. You can also explore the globe with predefined flight patterns by right-clicking in the scene. Right-click and drag to tilt your view or rotate around the point you clicked. You can rotate the wheel button to zoom in and out drag it to zoom in and out continuously. A single click allows you to identify features with an instant pop-up window drag to pan around the view.

When navigating with the mouse, you can rotate the view, tilt, and zoom at the same time, while selecting, measuring, or editing your features. Terrain data is coming from Mapzen's global terrain tiles.Depending on the device you're using, you can navigate either with a mouse or with touch. Press the 'h' key to toggle interface visibility.Multiplying this scale factor by the width of a 3D mesh in units x will tell you how high in units z your mesh should be after displacement in order to be true-scale.

The 'z:x scale factor' describes how 'high' the current view is, on the z-axis, in terms of how wide the current view is on the x-axis.( Here's a tutorial for doing this in Blender.) Import the resulting image as a displacement map in a 3D application to generate a 3D model of the terrain.(You may need to right-click the image to do this.) Click 'export' to open the current view as an image in a new tab - then 'Save As' to save the image to disk.

Uncheck 'auto-expose' to set min and max height levels manually.Here's a blog post about this tool, with more explanations and examples! The result is a grayscale heightmap, suitable for use as a displacement map in 3D applications. This is an elevation data browser, which 'auto-exposes' the display so that the highest and lowest visible elevations are white and black.

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