Find Telephone and Find Computer Location

ArcGIS-Explorer-Team — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:45:00 GMT

Two more new tasks delivered with ArcGIS Explorer 480 are Find Telephone and Find Computer Location. Let's have a look at how to access these, and how they can be used.

There are two places where new tasks are found in ArcGIS Explorer 480 - the Tasks tab under Content on the ArcGIS Explorer Resource Center, and in the Manage Tasks list. These are found in Manage Tasks.

Choose Tools > Manage Tasks. The left side lists available tasks, the right side lists tasks currently shown in Explorer. Highlight the tasks, and use the arrow to move them to the right column, then click OK.

You'll now see both available on the Explorer task panel where you can click to activate them.

Find Telephone

Find Telephone takes any land-based telephone number and locates it on your map. Here we've entered ESRI's phone number.

Click find to create a point result that locates the telephone number entered. The telephone subscriber, if publicly available, is also displayed in the Results window.

For additional information, visit the Find Telephone Help topic.

Find Computer Location

Find Computer Location creates a point result that is the geographic location of a web address or an IP address. Here we've typed the URL for the ESRI.com Web site. Click the result to open its popup window.

For more details, visit the Find Computer Location Help topic.

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Find Telephone and Find Computer Location