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Explorer 900 DevSummit plenary recording now online

If you missed the DevSummit plenary, the recording of it is now online at the ESRI DevSummit site . If you missed the live ArcGIS Explorer 900 demonstrations during the plenary, you can view them from among the videos. Just look for the Explorer and Online Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:30 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Explorer 900 at the DevSummit Plenary - Part 3

(be sure to check out Part 1 and Part 2 ) Larry Young continued to discuss the ArcGIS Explorer SDK, also free with ArcGIS Explorer. The SDK features a pure .NET managed code environment, and and easy yet powerful object model. Larry explained that different Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:50 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Explorer 900 at the DevSummit Plenary - Part 2

( make sure to check out Part 1 ) After the presentation of the out-of-the-box capabilities, the stage was turned over to technical product manager Larry Young who explained how the ArcGIS Explorer 900 user experience can be streamlined and how functionality Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:40 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Explorer 900 at the DevSummit Plenary - Part 1

ArcGIS program manager Jim McKinney emceed the morning plenary officially opening the DevSummit. He introduced ArcGIS Explorer as taking a big leap from the currently released ArcGIS Explorer 500 to the forthcoming ArcGIS Explorer 900. He introduced Bern Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 8:11 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Explorer 900 DevSummit Pre-con Seminar

Jeff Jackson and Andy MacDonald started the morning off with the Introducing ArcGIS Explorer 900 seminar before a full room. Here's how it looked as the morning started. After an overview of Explorer's capabilities, which were sprinkled with demos, Jeff Read More...
Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 8:46 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Explorer 900 at the BPC Plenary - Part 3

(Be sure to view Part 1 and Part 2 ) Continuing with his demonstration, Bern Szukalski opened another Explorer map. He explained that one of Explorer's strengths and distinguishing characteristics is that it can use a wide variety of data and Web services Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 22, 2009 8:15 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Explorer 900 at the BPC Plenary - Part 2

( be sure to view Part 1 ) Bern Szukalski then turned to ArcGIS Explorer 900, mentioning that users would immediately notice the new ribbon user interface. He explained that it's not just attractive, but also very well-designed, and provides an easy and Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 22, 2009 7:41 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Explorer 900 at the BPC Plenary - Part 1

A packed house attended this morning's opening of the Business Partner Conference, with many product announcements and demonstrations. ArcGIS Explorer 900 was among those highlighted, with a few important announcements of its own. Jack Dangermond introduced Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 22, 2009 6:46 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Getting ready for the BPC/DevSummit

It's been a busy week getting ready for the BPC/DevSummit. Here's the Explorer team meeting late this past week. It's early in the morning, so maybe that's why everyone's looking so dull... What you don't see in the photo above is the video conferencing Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 21, 2009 7:20 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Explorer 900 at the BPC/DevSummit

For those planning to attend the upcoming BPC/DevSummit, there's lots of ways to see and learn more about ArcGIS Explorer 900. Here's the Explorer schedule of events, in order by date and time: Monday, March 23, 8:30 a.m. Presummit seminar: Introducing Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 1:16 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Ok, so what's coming in ArcGIS Explorer 900?

There's a high level overview of what's coming in ArcGIS Explorer 900 that's recently been published on the ArcGIS Explorer Web pages on esri.com. At the upcoming Business Partner Conference and Developer Summit we'll be hosting a presummit seminar and Read More...
Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 1:22 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Projections (and MrSID images) for Explorer

Recently we had an E-mail from an Explorer user claiming that MrSID images did not seem to be supported. "Not so!" we maintained, but yet this user had no luck in opening his MrSID images which were being downloaded from a Web site. We took a closer look, Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 05, 2009 1:42 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Online geologic map of Arizona

We were at a conference the other week and had the pleasure of meeting M. Lee Allison, director and state geologist for the Arizona Geological Survey. Lee tipped us off to the Survey's online geologic map which we took for a spin in the ESRI booth with Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 03, 2009 6:57 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments