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September 2008 - Posts

WGA Video Now Online

ESRI President Jack Dangermond's presentation at the Western Governors' Association meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, has recently been posted in the Showcase area of the ESRI GIS for Conservation Web site . The video of the presentation includes recordings Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 4:35 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Glaciers, Glacier National Park, and Global Climate Change

Glacier National Park was named after the glaciers that carved and sculpted its landscape millions of years ago. But according to the Glacier National Park Web site by 2030 there will be no glaciers left in the park, the result of global climate change. Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 28, 2008 5:00 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Updated ArcGIS Online Services for Hurricane Ike

Just a few days ago we published a blog post on the NOAA imagery services and ArcGIS Explorer maps available for download. Those services are regularly being updated on ArcGIS Online, and whenever you open the map or layer (that you can download from Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 25, 2008 3:33 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Using The GeoNames Search Task

Find Place is one of the default tasks that you see when you first start Explorer. It's a handy way to locate cities, towns, airports, zipcodes, and the like. But what about other places, like place names on a topo map? That's where the GeoNames Search Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:33 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Yankee Stadium, Go To Location, and 3D Warehouse

Fabled Yankee Stadium, a landmark for 85 years and backdrop to many of baseball's greatest moments, saw its last game over the past weekend. From Wikipedia we got the lat/long coordinates, and decided to take a closer look. Using Go To Location (Tools Read More...
Posted Monday, September 22, 2008 9:28 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

ArcGIS Explorer Hurricane Ike Maps and Layers Now Available

ESRI's ArcGIS Online team has published a service containing recent imagery obtained from NOAA and showing the aftermath of Hurricane Ike for the Galveston, Texas, area. These are now available to ArcGIS Explorer users as a complete map or a layer that Read More...
Posted Friday, September 19, 2008 3:00 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Anderson Cooper, Hurricane Ike, and Gilchrest Texas

In times of disaster and loss, sometimes it's what's left behind, not what's gone, that delivers the most poignant image of the event. Tonight on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 , a lone house, the only one left standing on its block in Gilchrest, Texas, in Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:38 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Ari Isaak on Explorer

Ari Isaak blogs about using ArcGIS Explorer , and publishes an overview video and showing the display options and how to use tasks. The post can be found on %scratchworkspace% , the GIS blog at the Unified Port of San Diego. Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:34 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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ADOT Podcast on ArcGIS Explorer

Jami Garrison, data bureau manager at the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), discusses her experience participating in the 2008 ESRI International User Conference Plenary Session where she highlighted ADOT’s ArcGIS Explorer application. ESRI Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 2:55 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Ike Update

In a recent post we showed Explorer with Hurricane Ike data published by NOAA. Here's an update. The white track to the lower left shows the previously predicted hurricane track as of two days ago. The magenta line is the current predicted course. You Read More...
Posted Friday, September 12, 2008 2:46 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Exploring Hurricane Ike

Hurricane Ike is expected to grow stronger as it travels across the Gulf of Mexico, and is predicted to head towards the Texas coast. Potentially millions could be impacted and/or evacuated. ESRI has posted a hurricane support site with information and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 10:55 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Google StreetView Task

If you watched the Plenary session at the 2008 ESRI User Conference, one of the tasks demonstrated during the ArcGIS Explorer presentation was called StreetViewer. StreetViewer is a “smashup” of ArcGIS Explorer and a Google Street View service that Explorer Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 09, 2008 1:57 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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GeoRSS Feeds in Explorer

According to Wikipedia , GeoRSS is an emerging standard for encoding location as part of an RSS feed. What that boils down to for Explorer users is that it's another connection type that enables you to add dynamic, constantly changing information to your Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 04, 2008 1:58 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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