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Quick Content

The Quick Content task is a recent addition to Explorer, introduced with the 480 release in June. It provides a simple way to create your own Web-based menu for adding and displaying information using ArcGIS Explorer. The following video clip shows how Read More...
Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 5:30 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Explorer 500 Home Server files now available

The new ArcGIS Explorer 500 Home Server files are now ready for download from the Explorer download site . You can use a Home Server to: configure the look and feel of ArcGIS Explorer, including custom startup banners, logos, and north arrows. specify Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 23, 2008 2:20 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Weather Today, Weather Yesterday

NOAA's National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center publishes tornado, wind, and hail reports on a daily basis, as well as offers an historical archive of past events. Under reports you can find the current storm reports , and also search back in Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 3:26 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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ArcGIS Explorer 500 Released

The ArcGIS Explorer Team is pleased to announce that ArcGIS Explorer 500 was released just a few minutes ago. This is an update release that includes: Support for ArcGIS Online subscription services. Proxy server support improvements. A change to allow Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:15 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Exploring Paragliding

There been a couple of post on the GIS Education Community Blog using Explorer for visualizing GPS tracks taken while paragliding. The first post uses data from a flight from Mount Herman, near Colorado Springs. The second post shows what seems to be Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 1:13 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

PDFs in Popups

Recently we had a question about whether or not it was possible to open a PDF file directly in a result popup, and the answer is - Yes . In this particular case the user wanted to open a local PDF file in the popup, which is easy to do. But that also Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:02 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Importing GPS via GPX

Data can be imported and symbolized quickly and easily from a GPS device using the GPX data exchange format. According to Wikipedia it's an XML schema designed for describing GPS data between software applications. The GPX format encapsulates waypoints, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:46 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Exploring the Collapse of Wall Arch

"Geology happens," one of my college professors used to say. Wall Arch, located in Arches National Park along the Devils Garden Trail, collapsed sometime during the night of August 4, 2008. Now that's geology in action. The arch, according to the Arches Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:29 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

ESRI 2008 User Conference Wrap-Up

The Explorer team had a great week, and we hope you did too. We really appreciate your feedback and comments from the sessions and in the Showcase. We'll be summarizing some of the questions and feedback here in future posts. In case you missed it, here's Read More...
Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 12:15 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

ESRI 2008 User Conference - Explorer Thursday

The Showcase closed at 1:30 after another very busy day of sessions, meetings, demos, and more great feedback. Here's the crew at the close of the Explorer island area. From left: Euan, Mark, Bern, Michael, Andrei, Paul, Rob, and Edan. Most users and Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 07, 2008 5:29 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

ESRI 2008 User Conference - Explorer Wednesday

Jeff explaining how Explorer can be used along with ArcGIS server in emergency management applications. (Left to right) Paul takes Explorer through its paces, Jeff showing Explorer in the fire and emergency response showcase, and Nick ponders before his Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 07, 2008 4:57 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

ESRI 2008 User Conference - Explorer Tuesday

Today marked the opening of the showcase and general sessions, and it was a busy day all around. The Explorer team got lots of great feedback, and lots of suggestions for enhancements, and we're looking forward to more. Here's a few pics of the day's Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 05, 2008 3:47 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

ESRI User Conference 2008 - Plenary Part III - Explorer 600

The afternoon plenary "look ahead" at ArcGIS 9.4 and Explorer was hosted by 9.4 development lead Euan Cameron. Euan noted that Explorer has a rapidly paced release schedule, and that Explorer 600 will leverage some of the new capabilities being developed Read More...
Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 2:30 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

ESRI User Conference 2008 - Plenary Part II

Following Jami Garrison's excellent demonstration, Bernie Szukalski followed by highlighting additional capabilities introduced in Explorer 480. First Bern showed Explorer running inside a Web browser. Explorer can be configured to fill the entire browser, Read More...
Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 12:06 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

ESRI User Conference 2008 - Plenary Part I

During Monday morning's opening day plenary presentations, ArcGIS Explorer 480 was showcased. We'll review the Explorer presentations here. Jami Garrison, from the Arizona Department of Transportation, was the Explorer featured user, and was introduced Read More...
Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 12:04 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

ESRI User Conference 2008 - The Opening

Once empty seats now filled, with people and anticipation. The view of the opening minutes of Jack's welcome from behind the stage. Read More...
Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 8:37 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

ESRI User Conference 2008 - Sunday Part II

Here's the beginnings of the heart of the Explorer island in the middle of the ArcGIS Server area at the Showcase. Please stop by to meet the team, ask questions, and learn about Explorer 480 and what's ahead. The Showcase opens on Tuesday. We promise Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 03, 2008 9:14 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

ESRI User Conference 2008 - Sunday Part I - The EdUC

ESRI's User Conference has grown into several concurrent conferences in one. One of the intra-conferences that started today is the Education User Conference. Here's a look at some of the Explorer highlights from today's opening presentation. Derrick Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 03, 2008 8:49 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

ESRI User Conference 2008 - Saturday Part II

More behind the scenes looks at the UC 2008 Plenary preparations. Euan, Andy, and Jami (from Arizona Department of Transportation) ready their demos. The end of a long day... Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 02, 2008 8:43 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

ESRI User Conference 2008 - Saturday Sneak Peek

Here in San Diego several ESRI events have already started, and the excitement level is ramping up. The plenary stage has been readied (well, almost), and here's a peak behind the scenes. Here's (from right to left) John, Betty, Ismael, and Mike at the Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 02, 2008 7:25 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments