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Placing photos in their geographic context

In past blog posts we covered adding geotagged photos using the Add Photo task available under tasks at the ArcGIS Explorer Resource Center . This task reads the coordinate information that is embedded into the header of the image, and uses that to place Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 13, 2009 2:13 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Live GPS task now available from ArcScripts

A Live GPS task, written by Edan Cain of the ArcGIS Explorer team, has recently been posted on ArcScripts. You can download it directly from the ArcGIS Explorer section of ArcScripts , or by choosing ArcScripts from the Explorer Resource Center . The Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 22, 2009 2:07 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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New Explorer ArcScripts additions

ArcScripts is a place where users can share source code for Explorer tasks, and recently there have been a couple of interesting additions. Edan Cain adds his Flip Book time series animator task, a handy task when you want flip through a sequential series Read More...
Posted Sunday, December 07, 2008 3:23 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Importing GPS via GPX

Data can be imported and symbolized quickly and easily from a GPS device using the GPX data exchange format. According to Wikipedia it's an XML schema designed for describing GPS data between software applications. The GPX format encapsulates waypoints, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:46 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Mapping a Walkabout (and another sneak peek at 480)

Part II of a two part post on the GIS Education Community blog appeared the other day, picking up where the previous post left off with a discussion of how to take GPS readings and turn them into shapefiles, and then add hyperlinks. But there's another Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:28 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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ArcGIS Explorer = Many Kinds of Layers

One of Explorer's distinguishing features is its ability to connect directly to a wide variety of Web service-based content and a wide variety of local data, both vector and raster, and integrate and manipulate them all in a single map. It's truly in Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:29 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments