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, or just a part of the Web page, which was shown (below). It's the same Explorer with the same features as when you run it on your desktop.

Next the newly added support for graticules (lat/long in various units) and reference grids (MGRS and USNG) were highlighted. Shown below is a lat/long graticule.

Bern next mentioned that Explorer had included support for several new kinds of services and data sources. First he showed a connection to a USGS GeoRSS feed with all the magnitude 2.5 or greater worldwide quake events that have occurred during the last weeek. Each GeoRSS feed location displays additional information via a link that is part of the feed when you click to open its popup.

Next, support for enterprise geodatabases, or data stored via ArcSDE was highlighted. Moving to show a part of the City of Redlands parcel database, Bern explained how map tips are now supported, displaying the owner name for each parcel as he moved the mouse over them, and also that the attributes displayed in the feature popup window could now be controlled.

One of the attributes displayed was a link that opened a new window onto the San Bernardino County Assessor's Parcel Information Management System. Bern explained that this was a mashup, but not a map-on-map mashup that was shown earlier, but rather a different kind of mashup. One that mashes up a features viewed in Explorer with an online information system.

The new e-mail capability was shown next. You can e-mail a layer, result, or the entire map. The e-mail message and the attachment are generated on-the-fly, making it easy to share your work with others.

Add Photo is a new task delivered with Explorer 480. Bern showed opening a folder and adding several geotagged images. Geotagged images have the lat/long of where the image was taken embedded in the image file header, and this task reads the header and places a result at the correct location of the image. When the result is clicked, the image is viewed in the popup window.

Next Bern used the Find Telephone task to locate the Grand Hyatt in San Diego, then explained that while these tasks are authored by the ArcGIS Explorer team that users can create their own using Explorer's SDK, which is also free to download. Bern showed some interesting and different kinds of mashups, these showing both Google Maps StreetView and Microsoft Virtual Earth Bird's Eye views via popup windows in Explorer.