ArcGIS Explorer Build 410 is now available for download. There are quite a bit of new “enhancements” at build 410 including a new “Find Address Task” that is much easier to use.
Go get the download.
You can also download an ArcGIS Explorer Wikipedia Task that will allow you to explorer Wikipedia entries within ArcGIS Explorer.
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9 bugs fixed, improved driving directions, and a bandwidth test -wow.
The only new feature I’ve had is to launch it twice and have it completely knock my computer out. No blue screen, just shut down the PC. Uninstalled, re-installe, same thing. Off to check the video card requirments, even though my machine is less than a year old.
Very strange…
Addendum to my previous post. System requirements for AGE from ESRI state 32MB video RAM, 64MB recommended. Which is what I have with my on-board ATI Radeon.
Anyone else having problems???
Is your driver up-to-date? Perhaps you might check at http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
Does this version of ArcGIS Explorer allow connecting to ArcWeb Services (without writing a custom task)?
Thanks Michael…apparently this incremental build went over the head of my existing video driver. I suppose this means that the software will stream local datasets that much faster correct?
Cheers, -Matt
Slim’s opinions to the contrary, it isn’t an “incremental build”. ArcGIS Explorer is on a different release schedule than other ESRI product lines; you can expect new releases every 2-3 months approximately. Hope a new driver will help. If not, perhaps post to the ArcGIS Explorer Forum…
Mike writes: “ArcGIS Explorer is on a different release schedule than other ESRI product lines.” How can it be on a different release schedule when ESRI defines ArcGIS Explorer as “a lightweight desktop client for ArcGIS Server” the answer is this isnt a “release” its a “build.” a build means nothing to a paying customer. its not a major version release, its not a minor version release, its not a patch level release – its nothing but a build. Fine for developers and beta testers but not for software that you’ve been selling for two years.
slim: I’m not sure what you are getting at. ArcGIS Explorer is not tied to ArcGIS 9.2. This is why you can install it with any version of ArcGIS you wish, not just 9.2.
ESRI seems to define their releases as builds to the general public. Service Packs don’t update ArcGIS 9.2 to 9.2.x, they update them to 9.2 Build 1380.
Don’t get caught in the weeds with build vs release here. Of course the AGX team needs to work in sync with ArcGIS Server as it really is a client, but the way they’ve gone about writing AGX means they can address problems sooner and more quickly than service pack releases. I think if you look over the AGX releases and the service packs since 9.2 you’ll see AGX gets updated much quicker.
As to the quality of those releases and your expectations, I can’t address that.
james writes “ArcGIS Explorer is not tied to ArcGIS 9.2.” I didnt actually write or imply that but either way – you must be joking. ArcGIS Explorer is as ESRI says – a client for ArcGIS Server, and ArcGIS Server is completely tied to ArcGIS desktop. Further the support for reading file geodatabases in ArcGIS explorer is completely tied to ArcGIS version 9.2. As for frequency of builds this did not seem to be a plus for me, but rather a minus as each client must be tested with each server version, then deployed. either way, the release schedule for server and explorer seem to be more or less identical. ESRI web site shows build 350 – jan 07, build 380 – april 07, build 410 – aug 07. For ArcGIS server there is SP1 – jan 07, SP2 – april 07, and SP3 – july 07 – not to mention the new “explorer server files for arcgis server.” bottom line is, this new release was an opportunity to take this disappointing product out for another test drive. I installed it, checked out latest imagery and performance which is good enough, added a service and crashed it immediately. It’s still beta that’s why it doesn’t have a version or release number. it might be good enough for ESRI to deliver to me, but not good enough for me to deliver to my customers.
slim:
One can use ArcGIS Explorer with shapfiles and rasters without the need of ArcGIS Desktop. It isn’t tied to ArcGIS 9.2 any more than Google Earth is. One can run AGX without installing any piece of ESRI software.
While you are somewhat on target here, I’d say you’d only need 9.2 to create File Geodatabases, not actually use them with AGX. Plus you don’t have to use them at all.
That might be tied to how ESRI works internally rather than any requirement on AGX for 9.2. As I said, you can run AGX on any computer with any version of ESRI ArcGIS. You can’t do that with other ArcGIS Desktop/Server products.
I can’t speak to that, you might be right. Either way it seems that they are having trouble breaking out of old habits.
I’ve not had it crash on me yet, but performance in my office is slow. But as I’m sure you can agree with, we aren’t using it yet as an every day client for GIS and its probably still a ways off.
Actually it has been out of beta for almost 9 months. As for its version number, it is 1.0.0.410.
That I’ll agree with.
Um, when you install ArcGIS Explorer the message indicates “Version 9.2.380 is installed…uninstall before installing 9.2.410.
That is incorrect, the true version of the software is 1.0.0.410. That must be a bug.
I hope you are pulling my leg – Based on what could you possibly claim that when Help->About says ArcGIS Explorer 9.2 (Build 410) that it is not that
slim: The about box is just a text box that a graphics artist creates, windows reports the version as 1.0.0.410. No matter what ESRI marketing wants you to think, this is a version 1 product.