A new version of ArcGIS Explorer Desktop (2500) has just been released. This release includes many new features and enhancements which will enable ArcGIS Explorer Desktop to be used effectively in your enterprise, or in conjunction with your ArcGIS Online organization. ArcGIS Explorer Desktop enables you to provide broader access to GIS content and enable self-service mapping using local data and web services in both 2D and 3D modes.
Here’s a summary of what’s new in this latest release.
Presentations
Many enhancements are now available for creating and editing presentations, including new slide transition options, support for audio, and improved slide management.
Presentation improvements also include the following:
- Multiple titles
Multiple titles can be added and controlled in your presentation slides. - New title text placement options
- Pop-up size and placement control
- Update layer visibility across multiple slides
Set layer visibility in one slide, and apply to many slides.
New Text Options
Map text behaves similarly to a Note, and enables the placement of text in styles of your choice in various positions. The position remains in the map space, and when the map is moved the text is also moved.
Overlay text, like an image overlay, is placed on the screen and maintains its position independently of map panning and zooming. Use overlay text when you want your message to stay visible with respect to map navigation.
Attribute Display
Attribute display for feature layers is now supported.
Improved Pop-ups
Pop-ups can now be explicitly sized and positioned.
These capabilities are especially useful for fine-tuning presentations, and ensuring the pop-up contents (e.g. web sites and rich media content) fit in the pop-up window.
Search
ArcGIS 10.1 search is now integrated into ArcGIS Explorer Desktop, extending search capabilities to include auto-zoom to text-based locations (e.g., “california”) and the use of synonyms. Explorer 2012 also integrates ArcGIS Online and Portal for ArcGIS search capabilities. Content shared via ArcGIS Online, publicly or via your organization, or private content hosted on your on-premises cloud is not available. Footprints for discovered items can be previewed on the map.
Custom Basemap Gallery Support
The basemap gallery can now fetch basemaps from your ArcGIS Online organization, or from your on-premises Portal for ArcGIS. If you customize your organization or portal basemap gallery, the custom basemaps will display after you sign-in with your account. The basemap and layer galleries can be customized from within your organization.
New Layer Gallery
The layer gallery enables you to quickly add layers to your map. The layer gallery is customizable via your organization or on-premises portal.
Portability
Local installation is no longer required to use Explorer Desktop, and the application can be run from a thumb drive on any computer that meets the system requirements for build 2012.
And more…
ArcGIS 10.1 updates: Explorer 2500 has been updated to support updated capabilities in layer files, geodatabases, new raster formats, Python label expressions, ArcGIS Online web maps, and more.
For more information and installation instructions see:
Thanks for the new release.
Few thoughts:
1. Why the installation size is so large (92 mega)? Google earth is much smaller and has similar capabilities.
2. The installation includes many PY files, why?
3. The application don’t show any data. Maybe because the ArcGIS Connection is disabled.
1. Explorer Desktop has different capabilities than Google Earth, and is meant to be a tightly coupled part of an organization’s deployment of their enterprise GIS assets and workflows.
2. Python scripts are required to support layer files that use Python to control labeling. The PY files are added so that layer file capabilities can be fully supported.
3. Basemaps galleries and the basemaps themselves are online services, if you’re disconnected to you won’t see those. If connected and unable to see thse, in the few cases where this has been reported elsewhere the problem has ultimately been traced back to a proxy issue or firewall setting on the client side. If that’s your case, best to post your question out to the Explorer Desktop Forum:
http://forums.arcgis.com/forums/25-ArcGIS-Explorer-Desktop
or via the support site.
The new rerelease look very good… I have two questions
· Ive created a map and added that to a USB dive along with the .exe file but it will not run without installing the software. What iam I missing to get this to work?
· Under Arc GIS Explorer / Resources / Manage Locators can I add local address files on my server that have been created by Arc Desktop? I have tried a number of times and my system keep crashing. This is a very useful service as we often take a laptop into the field and have area’s without internet connection thus making the online search unavailable.
Make sure that you include the entire folder and all of its contents, not just the exe file. After including the entire Explorer folder, you should be able to navigate to the bin folder, and click the e3.exe to start ArcGIS Explorer Desktop.
As for the locator, we’d need more information. This would be best handled by initiating a support request at:
http://support.esri.com/
Or by going to the Forums:
http://forums.arcgis.com/forums/25-ArcGIS-Explorer-Desktop
Ive been looking at the forum and found some else have the same problems with local locator services, they have posted detailed information on what going wrong. My company would like to role Explorer out to 80 plus staff but this problem is holding us back…
http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/78437-Geocoding-Issues-in-Build-2500?highlight=Manage+Locators
It has limited shape files download, require feature not to exceed certain numbers of points.
ArcGIS Explorer Desktop can add as many features as you like from local shapefiles (within practical limits) and does not have the 1000 feature limit that Explorer Online and the ArcGIS Online webmap have for local data. Since Explorer Desktop is a locally installed application, rather than a web map, we can handle more local features. I am thinking you may be thinking about Explorer Online instead of Explorer Desktop.
Hello guys,
We are trying to connect ArcGIS explorer Desktop to our ArcGIS.com account and even the connection works, we are not able to download/see our online contents(feature sevices, map service, …).
Anyone can help us.
Thanks,
The ArcGIS Explorer Desktop Forum is the best place to get help on your question. You can post it here:
http://forums.arcgis.com/forums/25-ArcGIS-Explorer-Desktop
You can also contact support via chat or phone support by logging here: http://support.esri.com/
The attribute table viewing ability is great- but is there any way to adjust the “Zoom to feature” functionality of it? When I double-click on a record in a line feature class, it zooms tight into that selected line… but point feature classes seem to zoom out and pan to a selected point. Is there any way to control that zoom scale?
Sorry, but there is no way to adjust the zoom level. We’ll add it to an enhancement list for a later update…
Is there a way to control the display order in the Contents Window? Regardless of how I order layers or folders, the last layer added to AGX is the one displayed on top. This is pretty frustrating, as I would like, for instance, to display vector layers over raster layers. However, if I add a raster layer after having added a vector layer, the vector layer is “covered up” by the newly-added raster.
Thanks.