One of the earliest topics that researchers and educators tackled with GIS was natural hazards, because of their multi-disciplinary nature, and because hazards data were readily available in formats easily ingested by GIS software. Fifteen years later, hazards data are more easily used immediately after a hazardous event than ever ...

In honor of Geography Awareness Week and its European theme, I built a small ArcGIS Explorer (AGX) project focused on European capital cities….and best of all it’s here for you to download. In a nutshell, I did the following: 1. A little Web research to track down the names of all European capital cities (yes, I knew most but…) 2. To ...

Next week starts Geography Awareness Week. And next Wednesday, November 18, is GIS Day. So we'd like you to show us your geography and GIS!  Learn more at the ArcGIS Explorer Blog. We're ready to highlight your geographic and GIS activities using ArcGIS Explorer. Send us your screenshots, maps or layer files, or a ...

The ArcGIS Explorer (AGX) Resource Center is a great place to discover tips, tricks, and fun things you can do with AGX. I was touring the AGX blog and ran across a compelling post—Creating cool text and titles for your ArcGIS Explorer presentations, by Bernie Szukalski of the Explorer Team. It is a good piece on tying multiple ...

Among its many powerful features, ArcGIS Explorer (AGX) can display GeoRSS data – a data stream containing geography and attribute information. One of the most compelling features of GeoRSS is it’s ability to be readily created, allowing websites to display real-time or near real-time data. In AGX, when you link to GeoRSS data, you can ...

I spent last week at the annual conference of the State Educational Technology Directors Association. Participants and speakers talked about STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) to the point that I wished I had a nickel for every time it was mentioned. STEM content is indeed key to the future of our nation and planet, and ...

Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere means exploring mazes cut into fields of corn (maize) whose intricate patterns and shapes are created with GPS and a creative imagination. In a recent electronic newsletter from Point of Beginning, a resource dedicated to serving GPS, surveying, and GIS professionals, the editor discussed my article entitled ...

Recently PBS aired The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. The series has inspired this sequence of blog postings about aspects of my personal park explorations over the years. I’m using ArcGIS Explorer (AGX) in the investigation. See other national park blog posts for more. Over the past few weeks we have explored some of the ...

To get in the Halloween spirit, I created a layer package of data from the 2007 US Census of Agriculture about pumpkins, and shared it on ArcGIS Online [view layer package here (181 KB)]. You can explore where pumpkins are grown using this data and ArcGIS Desktop or ArcGIS Explorer. I was inspired by Chris Kollen, a librarian ...

Recently PBS aired The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. The series has inspired this sequence of blog postings about aspects of my personal park explorations over the years. I’m using ArcGIS Explorer (AGX) in the investigation. See other national park blog posts for more (including details on performing some functions listed below). ...