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September 2009 - Posts

Adding animations to your map with notes

In an earlier post we looked at how you can add live Web cams to your map using the live Old Faithful cam at Yellowstone National Park. Continuing with that theme, let's look at how we can add some of the animated media found at the Park Web site to our Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 30, 2009 8:48 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Education Community: Exploring National Parks

In conjunction with the new PBS National Parks series, George Dailey's My National Parks and ArcGIS Explorer blog series begins today. Yesterday we posted about how to add Yellowstone National Park's Old Faithful Web cam to your Explorer map, and we'll Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:21 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Adding live Web cams to your map with notes

Notes can be used to add lots of different content to your map, including photos, reports, videos, and more. Here we'll take a look at using notes to add a live Web cam, this one from Yellowstone National Park. First, let's have a look at the Yellowstone Read More...
Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 7:47 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Using Measure to find the elevation at any location

Someone asked the other day - how can I find the elevation at any point location? You can find that, and more using Measure. You'll find measure in the Find group on the Home tab. Open measure, and you'll see options for measuring a line, polygon, or Read More...
Posted Friday, September 25, 2009 6:49 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Using add-ins

Add-ins extend ArcGIS Explorer's out-of-the-box functionality, and are delivered as add-in files (.eaz files). Like you can add layers to your map with .nmc files, you can add tools (buttons, dockable windows, and more) to ArcGIS Explorer with add-ins. Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 24, 2009 6:48 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Image Server conflict patch released

If you're using ArcGIS Explorer on the same machine as you are using ArcGIS Image Server, the ESRI Support Center News Blog has just published important information about the recently released patch to fix conflicts between the two. Read More...
Posted Friday, September 18, 2009 2:41 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Adding photos to your map using notes

Notes are an easy way to add a wide variety of non-GIS content to your map, like photos, videos, Web pages, PDF files, and more. Using notes you can place any of these in a geographic context, and use them with other layers in your map and in presentations. Read More...
Posted Friday, September 18, 2009 9:53 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Tip for add-in developers: How to bundle files in an EAZ file

Question: I am working on an add-in that will include several images that will be displayed as image overlays when the user views certain layers. What is the best way to include these images with my .eaz file so they can be accessed at runtime? Answer: Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 17, 2009 1:45 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Using the ArcGIS Explorer group on AGOL

In a previous post we mentioned the two groups we've created for ArcGIS Explorer users on ArcGIS Online; the ArcGIS Explorer group and the ArcGIS Explorer Labs group . Let's take a closer look at the ArcGIS Explorer group, and how you can use it. When Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:41 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Exploring Hudson's travels

This year marks the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's exploration of the river that would bear his name. A recent post by George Dailey on the GIS Education Community Blog takes a closer look using ArcGIS Explorer. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 15, 2009 9:08 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

ArcGIS Explorer groups on ArcGIS Online

ArcGIS Online provides an easy way for GIS users to find and share useful content and resources, including maps, layers, and tools. These include a wide variety of specific file types unique to ESRI products, and you can view a complete list of supported Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 15, 2009 7:48 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Exploring climate change

A recent GIS Education Community blog post offers a lesson on climate change using ArcGIS Explorer. The downloadable lesson was created for Earth Science Week and uses data from the NASA Earth Observation Web site. Read More...
Posted Monday, September 14, 2009 8:44 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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ESRI Mapping for Everyone

The new ESRI Mapping for Everyone site provides a variety of information and resources for users interested in learning more about Web mapping applications and ArcGIS Explorer. With lots of samples, examples, and downloads, it's a handy single destination Read More...
Posted Friday, September 11, 2009 11:37 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

ArcGIS Explorer code snippets

Code snippets are a very useful feature of Visual Studio. We've added some key snippets to the ArcGIS Explorer SDK – the kinds of things that are simple but that you end up writing frequently, or that you might forget. Even some of the team members forget Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 10, 2009 4:15 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Updated add-ins on ArcGIS Explorer Labs

ArcGIS Explorer Labs is a place you can find and access add-ins and other resources that the ArcGIS Explorer team publishes. Many of these add-ins are prototypes of what may eventually be added to the core product, some may not be, and all are unsupported. Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 10, 2009 2:38 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Adding PowerPoint slides to Explorer presentations

Explorer's new presentation capabilities are a powerful and very popular feature of the latest release. Like PowerPoint you can create "slides" of your geographic information that you can show and share with others. But better than PowerPoint, the presentation Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 09, 2009 12:24 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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