(Be sure to check part 1 of this post)

For the next segment of the ESRI User Conference plenary demonstration, Bernie Szukalski focused on the new ArcGIS Explorer presentation capabilities. These allow users to leverage all of the capabilities of Explorer to create dynamic geographic presentations.

First he showed what looked like a PowerPoint slide, and said that he had created it using PowerPoint and had added it to Explorer (as a display overlay). To advance to the next slide, just click the arrow in the top left or press the keyboard space bar.

Szukalski showed an example of using Explorer for a presentation at a city planning meeting. As he advanced his "slides" he zoomed in to the city and displayed several layers. He explained that this might look like a regular PowerPoint presentation, but then took control of Explorer and zoomed around, tilted the view, and clicked several features to show how he was using "live" Explorer. He clicked on a lot polygon to show that attributes could be viewed, and also clicked on a camera icon to show he was also connected to live traffic cameras.

Moving into another presentation, he showcased Yellowstone National Park. Zooming into the park he explained that he was using layer packages (to take advantage of ArcGIS Desktop cartography), and showed precipitation data draped on top of the topographic basemap (from the basemap gallery) along with a legend. Note also the title added using Explorer's presentation tools.

Advancing to the Upper Geyser Basin, he showed the support for KML and KMZ files by showing a 3D Sketchup model of the Old Faithful Inn, and also a live link to the Yellowstone National Park Old Faithful Geyser cam. At any time during the presentation a user can take control of Explorer to navigate, or click on features to show additional information.

Finally, he moved into a presentation that was targeted at highlighting Explorer's use for educators. He leveraged some of the available content for kids and educators found on the Yellowstone National Park Web site, and showed flash animations and other overlays in his presentation. Below is a flash animation that shows how the Yellowstone hot spot may have formed (from the educational resources on the Yellowstone site) and a display overlay of the Junior Ranger program badges.