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My National Parks and ArcGIS Explorer series concludes

If you've not been following along on the GIS Education Community blog be sure to check out George Dailey's series covering National Parks and ArcGIS Explorer. The 10-part post was inspired by the PBS special The National Parks: America's Best Idea and Read More...
Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 9:00 AM by bszukalski | 0 Comments

Corny geography with ArcGIS Explorer

Mapping corn mazes using ArcGIS Explorer is one of the latest posts found on the GIS Education Community Blog. Written by ESRI education manager Joseph Kerski, the post covers adding data by importing text files to create an Explorer map showing the spatial Read More...
Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 8:41 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Creating cool text and titles for your ArcGIS Explorer presentations

It's easy to add a title or text to your ArcGIS Explorer presentation , just use the following controls on the Presentation tab that let you add and remove text, and change colors and styles. Here we've chosen from one of the built-in styles to add a Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 05, 2009 5:15 PM by bszukalski | 0 Comments

Pizza anyone? Local business search with Bing and Yahoo!

We thought we'd take a closer look at a couple of add-ins you can find on the ArcGIS Explorer Labs group (authored by Explorer team member Michael Waltuch). Both are useful for locating businesses and more, and placing them on your map. We've added both, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 04, 2009 8:06 AM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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ArcGIS Explorer at the EUC

At the recent European User Conference, hosted by ESRI's distributor in Lithuania HNIT-Baltic , ArcGIS Explorer was featured during the opening plenary. Here's a few highlights from the demonstration. ArcGIS Explorer was introduced as a way to provide Read More...
Posted Monday, November 02, 2009 8:18 AM by bszukalski | 0 Comments
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Happy Halloween with ArcGIS Explorer

Halloween is just around the corner, and we couldn't resist highlighting a couple of.. well... bewitching examples. First, on the Google Earth blog there was a post about a pumpkin KML . We downloaded the KML, added it to Explorer, and gave it a little Read More...
Posted Friday, October 30, 2009 4:38 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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ArcGIS Explorer system check utility updated

The ArcGIS Explorer online system check utility has been updated to include Windows 7, and is a handy tool to check to see how your system meets minimum and recommended system requirements. Visit the ArcGIS Explorer download page and look for the system Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009 1:36 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Getting Started Tips

The latest issue of ArcWatch , ESRI's e-magazine for GIS news, views, and insights, publishes an article by ArcGIS Explorer product manager Bern Szukalski with information on getting started, providing tips and pointing out some great resources. Even Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:58 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Weather Forecast add-in for ArcGIS Explorer

The other day we posted about how you can find and use ArcGIS Explorer add-ins from ArcGIS Explorer Labs. Last night the weather was bit crazy in Redlands with high winds. And on the news this morning were reports about a big storm hitting Denver. So Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 2:42 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Using sample add-ins from ArcGIS Explorer Labs

Add-ins are used to extend ArcGIS Explorer's capabilities and can be created using Visual Studio and the ArcGIS Explorer SDK. The ArcGIS Explorer team has published a variety of ready-to-use add-ins that you can download from ArcGIS Explorer Labs , one Read More...
Posted Monday, October 26, 2009 2:12 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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Windows 7 and ArcGIS Explorer

With the recent release of Windows 7 we've had a bunch of questions regarding ArcGIS Explorer running on it. The ArcGIS Explorer system requirements published at the ESRI Support Center Wiki has been updated with Windows 7 support information. Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 22, 2009 3:58 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 1 Comments
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US Department of Interior uses Explorer to show climate change

On September 14, 2009, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar launched the Department of the Interior’s strategy to address current and future impacts of climate change on America’s land, water, ocean, fish, wildlife, and cultural resources. During the Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 15, 2009 12:02 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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How to add locations from text files - and more

Recently we had a question from an educator preparing a geography lesson for his students. He had collected the names and birthplaces of his students and wanted show them on a map and share them with his class using Explorer. "Was that possible?" he asked. Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 11, 2009 9:10 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments

Pinning your popups

In a recent post we covered the basics of some of the things you can do in note popups. Popups are also displayed when you click on features. One of the questions we got just after our post was - can I have more than one popup open at a time? And the Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 08, 2009 12:26 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 1 Comments
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Text, photos, links, and HTML in popups

Popups are an easy way to add lots of different content to your map, and are found with notes as well as views . Here we'll cover the basics of popups, and how you can display text, photos, Web sites, and more. First, we'll start with a very basic example. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 4:25 PM by ArcGIS-Explorer-Team | 0 Comments
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