ArcGIS Explorer Blog : User Conference

Tutorial: Putting YouTube in Your Notes

ArcGIS-Explorer-Team — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:13:00 GMT

One of the things we demonstrated at the User Conference was a note that began playing a video when it was clicked. In this particular case the note popup opened a link to one of the videos published on YouTube. We've had several questions about how this was done, so here's how:

First, go to the YouTube site and find a video you'd like to open in the note popup. If you're not familiar with notes, we covered the basics in an earlier post so you might want to check that first, or go directly to the notes Help.

Here we've gone to YouTube and searched for "ESRI" and found that the first hit is a video showing the TouchTable at the 2005 ESRI User Conference.

Click the video to play it, and look for the Share Video link on that page. Once you click Share Video you'll see an input box that contains the URL link to the video that you can copy and paste into an email to send to others.

Highlight and copy the link. Then in Explorer create a new note. Use this link along with a little HTML as the note text as shown below:

Then place the note, and click the pushpin. The video will open automatically in the note popup.

You can do the same with any video, just substitute the new URL or path in place of what you copied from YouTube. In the next release (coming in July) it will no longer be necessary to add those few HTML tags, so it will be even easier to include videos in your Explorer maps.

Thanks and User Conference Summary

ArcGIS-Explorer-Team — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:32:00 GMT

The ArcGIS Explorer Team would like to extend a big thanks to everyone that attended one of our sessions or stopped by to say hello or ask questions in the Explorer Showcase area. We enjoyed meeting you and learning more about what you plan to do with ArcGIS Explorer, and we enjoyed the opportunity to share with you our excitement about the product. Most important of all, we got lots of great feedback, comments, and suggestions, and we'll be talking about some of these in more detail here in future posts.

In the Showcase and at the sessions we were using both the currently available public download (Build 380) and also showing one of the more recent software builds (Build 392) to highlight some of the new features that you can look forward to in the next release. This upcoming release of Explorer will continue to evolve for a few more weeks and will be delivered sometime in July.

The Explorer Team's philosophy is to push out releases incrementally and often, and we've been averaging a release every two months since the initial release that came out along with ArcGIS 9.2 back in November. We often refer to releases by their build number, and to find yours just choose Help on Explorer's main menu, then choose About ArcGIS Explorer.

Over 14,000 attended the 2007 ESRI User Conference, but if you were unable to join them you can learn more about what happened at the conference by visiting the User Conference Blog. In case you missed the opening Plenary presentation which highlighted ArcGIS Explorer and ArcGIS Online, you can listen to the ESRI Podcast of that section.

Explorer at User Conference Plenary

ArcGIS-Explorer-Team — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:32:00 GMT

An excellent write-up on one of the demonstrations performed during Jack Dangermond's opening plenary at the 2007 ESRI User Conference this morning appears on the ESRI User Conference Blog. The post, titled Integrating Online Geospatial Services Delivers Superior Visualization and Information, details the use of ArcGIS Explorer and ArcGIS Online. The write-up includes several screenshots of what was shown. If you are at the User Conference, make sure to stop by the Explorer showcase area to see these demonstrations again, and learn how you can do similar things with Explorer.

User Conference is almost here!

ArcGIS-Explorer-Team — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:10:00 GMT

It’s User Conference time! There will be numerous glimpses of ArcGIS Explorer as part of the opening Plenary Session and the development team will be rooting for a great show from the back of the room. The entire team is excited to be a part of this year’s Conference and you can find us in several Technical Workshops, Demo Theater sessions, and at the Explorer island located in the middle of the Server GIS area. ArcGIS Explorer will be shown at the the ArcGIS Server islands, the 3D visualization island, and the ArcGIS Online island.

Some of the ArcGIS Explorer team setting up at the showcase area for UC07. That's Dara Hughes on the left, Mark Bockenhauer in the middle, and lead ArcGIS Architect and Explorer Engineer Euan Cameron on the right.

We’d like to meet you and answer your questions, so feel free to come over and introduce yourself. Just about the entire team will be at the conference this year, and we'll be providing a sneak peek at the Island of some of the new features the team is working on for the next release of the software right after the UC.

Explorer UC 2007 Sneak Peek

bszukalski — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:20:00 GMT

If you're heading to the 2007 ESRI User User Conference in San Diego next week, there's lot's in store for Explorer users. Not only will there be introductory and advanced workshops that talk about the current release, there will also be some looks forward into the next version that is planned for release after the Conference. You'll be able to see and try for yourself some of the new features in the ArcGIS Explorer Showcase area.

Don't forget to add the Explorer sessions to your User Conference Schedule Planner, and make sure you stop by to say "hello" to the team. We're looking forward to seeing you there.

Here's a sneak peek at what you might see during the plenary and at the workshops. We'll also be showing these at the Explorer Island, and explaining how these were done.

Above: Explorer with several ArcGIS Online services, including the NGS Topo service. A Note links from an observer location to an online photo published on the USGS Web site.

Below: Using the new File Import capabilities, locations and links to real-time traffic cams have been added.