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Getting Started with ArcGISExplorer
Kevin Armstrong
Topics for this session
• Overview• The essentials for getting started• New features• Tips for success• Your questions
ArcGIS Explorer is GIS for Everyone
• Free, lightweight, can be deployed widely
• An integral part of your GIS
• Enables you to deliver GIS to a broad audience- Within and between departments- Throughout your organization and with other
organizations- To geographic information users everywhere
• Provides a way to explore, visualize, share, and present geographic information
• Easy to integrate other information geographically
ArcGIS Explorer Online
ArcGIS Explorer Desktop
ArcGIS Explorer
ArcGIS Explorer Online vs. Desktop
• Similar look and feel• Some of the same capabilities
- Presentations, notes
• A lightweight version that runs in a browser- Built using Microsoft Silverlight
• Focus on using map and layer services
Getting Startedexplorer.arcgis.com
• Start by using a featured, empty, or new map• Choose a basemap• Add your own layers, notes, presentation• Save and share
A great place to start!
Demo – Explorer Online
ArcGIS Explorer Desktop
1. Check system requirementsRun online check utility
2. Download & install
3. Adjust your preferences
4. Make your maps
• esri.com/arcgisexplorer• resources.esri.com /arcgisexplorer
A good idea!
Also check for graphics driver updates!
Application parts
Ribbon
Contents2D / 3D Map
TabsQAT
ExplorerButton
NavigationThe navigator, mouse, and keyboard
Preferences, Properties, Options
Explorer Options• Navigation, flight• Resources• More…
Display• Effects (fog, stars, halo)• Grid, Coordinate readout• More…
Map PropertiesExplorer Options
Display
ArcGIS Online
• Maps, layers, and tools• Share directly to your ArcGIS Online account
ArcGIS Online Basemap Gallery
• Choose from ready-to-use basemaps- ArcGIS Online
- World topo, streets, imagery, more…
- Bing™ Maps, OpenStreetMap
• Add and manage your own
Add Content
• ArcGIS Online• Layer files (.lyr) and layer packages (.lpk)• Explorer map content files• KML, KML network link• Services
- ArcGIS Server, Image services, ArcIMS- WMS, GeoRSS
• Shapefiles• Rasters• Geodatabase• Text files, GPX• Image Overlays
Working with Content
• Use available tabs or context menu• Tools, choices, and properties will vary depending
on content type (contextual)
Layer Popups and Properties
• Feature layer popup properties allow choice of fields and how used
• Service layer popup off unless service includes HTML popup
• Go to• Locate• E-mail• Create note
Manage your layers
• Set drawing order via Manage Layers
• Or control draw order using tools tab
The table of contentsorganizes layers.
The drawing order ismanaged here.
Demo – Explorer Desktop
Notes & Popups
• Choose from a variety of styles• Can be used to integrate other content
- documents, photos, videos, reports, websites, HTML, …
Layer query builder
• Query filter for display of features
Saving and sharing layers
• Use tools tab … or right-click to share- Layer package, map content file (nmc), or KML- Save to file, E-mail, upload to ArcGIS Online
Saving and sharing your map
• Save as new map (map.nmf)• As the default map (default.nmf)• As a new basemap
(appears in basemap gallery)
• Share to ArcGIS Online• E-mail map• E-mail map view
Demo – Map Items
Presentations
- Set time intervals for auto-play- Startup map in presentation mode
Presentations are live, so you can navigate and interact during a presentation, and data can change!
Presentations
Popup
Image Overlay
Title
Tools
Demo - Presentations
Analysis Gallery
• Connect to ArcGIS Server that publishes GP services• Manage tools in gallery
Add-ins
• Built using Explorer SDK and Visual Studio• Managed through Advanced Resources or
application configuration• Many examples available from Explorer Labs group
onArcGIS Online
Application Configurations
• Edited / managed via Application Configuration Manager
• Enables custom ribbons, add-ins, logos, splash screen and more …
• Easiest way to package customizations
Demo – Customizing Explorer
ArcGIS Explorer Resources
• Resource Center- http://resources.esri.com/arcgisexplorer
• ArcGIS Explorer Blog- http://blogs.esri.com/Info/blogs/arcgisexplorerblog/
• ArcGIS Online- http://www.arcgis.com
Thank You!
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