The Explorer team had a great week, and we hope you did too. We really appreciate your feedback and comments from the sessions and in the Showcase. We'll be summarizing some of the questions and feedback here in future posts. In case you missed it, here's a photo taken during the closing session on Friday, showing (left to right) Jack ...

The Showcase closed at 1:30 after another very busy day of sessions, meetings, demos, and more great feedback. Here's the crew at the close of the Explorer island area. From left: Euan, Mark, Bern, Michael, Andrei, Paul, Rob, and Edan. Most users and some team members were headed to the UC Party, but some of the team headed ...

Jeff explaining how Explorer can be used along with ArcGIS server in emergency management applications.   (Left to right) Paul takes Explorer through its paces, Jeff showing Explorer in the fire and emergency response showcase, and Nick ponders before his workshop on using Explorer's SDK. Joe (middle) works a KML over for a user (on ...

Today marked the opening of the showcase and general sessions, and it was a busy day all around. The Explorer team got lots of great feedback, and lots of suggestions for enhancements, and we're looking forward to more. Here's a few pics of the day's Explorer events. Michael and Mark at the Doing More with ArcGIS Explorer session ...

The afternoon plenary ''look ahead'' at ArcGIS 9.4 and Explorer was hosted by 9.4 development lead Euan Cameron. Euan noted that Explorer has a rapidly paced release schedule, and that Explorer 600 will leverage some of the new capabilities being developed for ArcGIS 9.4, but will be released sooner. Andy MacDonald delivered the preview ...

Following Jami Garrison's excellent demonstration, Bernie Szukalski followed by highlighting additional capabilities introduced in Explorer 480. First Bern showed Explorer running inside a Web browser. Explorer can be configured to fill the entire browser, or just a part of the Web page, which was shown (below). It's the same Explorer with the ...

During Monday morning's opening day plenary presentations, ArcGIS Explorer 480 was showcased. We'll review the Explorer presentations here. Jami Garrison, from the Arizona Department of Transportation, was the Explorer featured user, and was introduced by Explorer product manager Bernie Szukalski. Bern explained that Explorer has been ...

Once empty seats now filled, with people and anticipation. The view of the opening minutes of Jack's welcome from behind the stage.  

Here's the beginnings of the heart of the Explorer island in the middle of the ArcGIS Server area at the Showcase. Please stop by to meet the team, ask questions, and learn about Explorer 480 and what's ahead. The Showcase opens on Tuesday. We promise it will look more inviting than this. Today was the final day of preparations and ...

ESRI's User Conference has grown into several concurrent conferences in one. One of the intra-conferences that started today is the Education User Conference. Here's a look at some of the Explorer highlights from today's opening presentation. Derrick Burke showed some of the interesting ways Explorer can be used by Educators. The theme ...