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 National Park Web site where we'll find a page that contains the Web cam that provides a view of Old Faithful and the Upper Geyser Basin. At the Park site, under Photos and Multimedia, we'll find a description and link that take us to the live Web cam page.


If we click to open the cam we'll see the current view of the Upper Geyser Basin, and if we're lucky we'll see Old Faithful erupting (we weren't lucky at the time we made this post).

In ArcGIS Explorer we've switched our basemap from the default basemap to the physical basemap which includes the topo maps for the US. We use Find and enter "Old Faithful" to locate the geyser, then choose to move our location to the map which creates a note that we'll edit.

 

Clicking the note pushpin to open its popup, we start editing by clicking Edit Popup.

 

Looking again at the Yellowstone National Park Web cam, you'll see the URL that points to the cam at the top of the window.

 

Just copy the URL and paste it into the note popup contents.

And now we've got the Web cam placed on our map, so we can click to see if we can catch Old Faithful erupting, export it (save it as an NMC file), or share it by E-mailing it to others.

For more information on notes, check the following ArcGIS Explorer Help topics under Adding Notes to the map in Contents: