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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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Linking to Virtual Earth (or my first custom task)

(submitted by Jonathan Fisk, GIS Solutions Engineer, ESRI Charlotte) Part of my job is to discover Web based content and services, mash them up, and then show these to others. Many of them don’t realize how easy these are to mashup in this Web 2.0 world. Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 20, 2008 8:09 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

AIRS Curtain Plots Custom Task

One of the custom tasks shown during the Developer Summit plenary was authored by John Grayson, a veteran of ESRI's Applications Prototype Laboratory. Here's his description of the task. This ArcGIS Explorer task has been implemented to visualize data Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 5:45 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

BPC and Dev Summit - Some Custom Tasks

Last week was a busy week for the entire Explorer team, with lots of interesting things happening and lots of great discussions in the Showcase area and elsewhere at Palm Springs. We appreciate all of your comments and feedback. We'll be highlighting Read More...
Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 10:16 AM by bszukalski | 0 Comments

Explorer at GITA

Over the last couple of posts we've covered ArcGIS Explorer at the Petroleum User Group (PUG) Conference and also the Federal User Conference (FedUC). We're now at GITA, and here's a quick recap of what was presented at last night's ESRI dinner reception, Read More...
Posted Monday, March 10, 2008 10:56 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Explorer at the PUG

Earlier this week we posted on the Explorer presentation during the plenary at the Federal User Conference. Here's an overview of the Explorer presentation during the plenary at the Petroleum User Group meeting (PUG), held in Houston last week. The first Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 01, 2008 1:30 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Deploying Custom Tasks with Supporting Files

(Submitted by Rob Dunfey, ArcGIS Explorer SDK Team) I've just uploaded a custom task to the resource center that queries Flickr , the photo sharing website. You can use the task to search for geo-tagged photos that have been 'tagged' with descriptions. Read More...
Posted Monday, February 11, 2008 11:09 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Custom Task Lifecycles

(by Rob Dunfey, ArcGIS Explorer SDK Development Team) Custom tasks have many different functions, but for all their differences they have much in common. For example, all custom tasks have a task lifecycle, and as a custom task developer it is important Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 27, 2008 9:06 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Wikipedia Task

Many of us are heading to various places, some familiar some not, for the Thanksgiving holidays. It's always nice to learn a little more about where we're headed to. The Wikipedia task found in the Explorer Community Showcase is a great way to do just Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:12 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 1 Comments

What's the Weather? Find out with the Weather Finder

Another useful and interesting custom task (written by Michael Waltuch) is found in the Community Showcase section of the Explorer Resource Center . It's a good example of a custom task that leverages an available Web service for use within Explorer. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:52 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Time Navigator Custom Task

Richie Carmichael (of ESRI's Applications Prototype Lab) posted a Time Navigator custom task for Explorer a while back. The task has gone through several iterations and improvements, and the current version (including source code) can be found at ArcScripts. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:35 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

ArcScripts for ArcGIS Explorer

If you're looking for additional tasks for Explorer, and especially if you're looking for their source code too, then don't forget to check out ArcScripts. ArcScripts has long been a valuable resource where the ESRI user community and staff share code. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:22 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Debugging Custom Tasks with Visual Studio

(Submitted by Rob Dunfey, ArcGIS Explorer Dev Team) When designing the ArcGIS Explorer API, above all we wanted to make it as simple and easy to use as possible, so people with no development experience would be able to develop their own custom tasks. Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 04, 2007 12:42 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments