ArcGIS Explorer Blog : Results

Happy Holidays from the ArcGIS Explorer Team

ArcGIS-Explorer-Team — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:02:00 GMT

The ArcGIS Explorer Team would like to send you our Season's Greetings in the form of a screenshot showing a snowy Yosemite landscape via a live Web cam seen from within Explorer. We managed to capture the sunset glow at the top of Half Dome the other day.

We'd like to pause for a moment to thank everyone for helping make it such a great year. The coming year holds much more for ArcGIS Explorer, and we're looking forward to the release of ArcGIS Explorer 900. As usual we'll be filling you in on what's new here on the blog.

Season's Greetings!

- the ArcGIS Explorer Team

The image above was made by using note results that link to live Yosemite Web cams and a display overlay map property. For more info and ideas on creating notes that link to Web cams and other content, see these posts:

Adding Photos and More to Note Popups (April 7, 2008)

Exploring the Collapse of Wall Arch (August 12, 2008)

ESRI User Conference 2008 - Plenary Part I (August 4, 2008)

For more info on display overlays, see this post:

Display overlay, legends, and streamlining the user experience (October 6, 2008)

Results on the ArcGIS Explorer Resource Center

ArcGIS-Explorer-Team — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:55:00 GMT

We've covered note results quite a bit here on the blog; they're very useful and can integrate all sorts of different content on your map. Here's a couple of blog posts to check out if you've not done so already:

Creating and Using Notes

Adding Photos and More to Note Popups

The ArcGIS Explorer Resource Center also has a collection of results you can click and access directly. All of these are authored using the various methods covered in the blog posts listed above. Two found on the Resource Center that we took a closer look at in this video are the US Highest and Lowest Points, and NPS Air Quality. Check out the video:

NPS Air Quality Results

ArcGIS-Explorer-Team — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:45:00 GMT

Here's a new result that you can open in Explorer. It adds the locations of National Park Service air quality Web cams, and the popups open the cam images which are updated every 15 minutes. The NPS Web site describes the cams:

The National Park Service operates digital cameras at many parks to help educate the public on air quality issues. These cameras often show the effects of air pollution such as visibility impairment. Because these cameras are typically located near air quality monitoring sites, the camera web pages display other information along with the photo such as current levels of ozone, particulate matter, or sulfur dioxide air pollutants, visual range, and weather conditions.

Let's take a look at these results. First start Explorer if it's not already running, and click the link below to access the file from this post:

NPS Air Quality Result

If you're prompted to save or open the file, choose to open the file. You'll see the results display immediately on your map. You can optionally save the file locally, and then browse to open it using File > Open > ArcGIS Explorer Files.

Open the result group, and have a look at the various cam locations.

Here we've chosen to have a look at the Sequoia - Kings Canyon National Park cam. Double-click the result, and you'll automatically zoom to its location, then click the cam symbol to open its popup window.

Links in the popup window open a new browser window. One of those links shows the view under ideal conditions, with landmarks labeled. You can see that when we checked this afternoon that it was not the best air quality day in the foothills surrounding the park. Compare the image below showing ideal conditions with the one shown in the popup window above.

If you open the properties for one of the results you can see how the popup contents work. It's siimply a URL to the Web page that displays the Web cam image and other links.

We covered how you can add various types of content to result popup windows in a previous post. This result is one of the new ones we're including on the ArcGIS Explorer Resource Center for the 480 release, coming up soon!