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July 2008 - Posts

Explorer at the User Conference

We've been readying for the 2008 User Conference, and we're looking forward to meeting existing and soon-to-be Explorer users in San Diego. Please stop by and visit us in the Showcase area. We'll be happy to answer your questions, and show you some of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:12 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Virtual Earth for Explorer

ESRI and Microsoft have jointly announced the availability of Microsoft Virtual Earth map and imagery content for ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Server. ArcGIS Explorer is part of the ArcGIS Desktop family of products, and here's a preview of what these look Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:49 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Weather Delay at Logan

Here's a map that speaks for itself. At this moment there is an average flight delay of 175 minutes at Logan International Airport due to weather. Real-time radar weather from weatherbug.com (ArcIMS service), real-time airport delays from guiWeather.com Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 7:51 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Raster Transparency in Explorer 480

One of the new features introduced with ArcGIS Explorer 480 is the ability to set any color in a raster image transparent. This is very handy when working with georeferenced images with "no data" values. Have a look at the video , then follow along in Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 7:15 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Linking to Virtual Earth (or my first custom task)

(submitted by Jonathan Fisk, GIS Solutions Engineer, ESRI Charlotte) Part of my job is to discover Web based content and services, mash them up, and then show these to others. Many of them don’t realize how easy these are to mashup in this Web 2.0 world. Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 20, 2008 8:09 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

GIS Education Community Explorer Posts

We've been busy, so have missed mentioning some interesting posts on the GIS Education Community Blog about ArcGIS Explorer. So let's catch up... George Dailey, ESRI Education Manager, published a series of Where's Geo? entries, covering his travels throughout Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 13, 2008 10:52 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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When Lightning Strikes

California has already had another bad fire year with many hundreds of fires burning throughout the state, most started by lightning. Between June 21 and June 22 there were nearly 10,000 strikes (9,927 to be exact). Here's an Explorer view of the strikes Read More...
Posted Friday, July 11, 2008 8:34 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Explorer at WGA

Eleven Governors and four Canadian Premiers participated in the recent Western Governors' Association meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The themes of the meeting included energy, climate change and adaption, wildlife corridors, and water policies. Wyoming Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 09, 2008 1:08 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Find Telephone and Find Computer Location

Two more new tasks delivered with ArcGIS Explorer 480 are Find Telephone and Find Computer Location. Let's have a look at how to access these, and how they can be used. There are two places where new tasks are found in ArcGIS Explorer 480 - the Tasks Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 1:45 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments