ArcGIS Explorer Portal Updated

August 15th, 2007 · 10 Comments · ArcGIS Explorer

ESRI has updated the ArcGIS Explorer Resource Center. Looks nice and I see they have a new Share tab (at least new to me). There is your ~~GIS~~ ESRI community right there folks.

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1 Rich // Aug 16, 2007 at 6:44 am

Are they seriously sharing screen shots? Thats interesting technology, did ESRI use “print screen” for those pics? WOW.

Not to mention the blog is off-line.

So, if by “looks nice” you mean nothing within then you are right. NEAT.
2 James Fee // Aug 16, 2007 at 6:55 am

Come on man, submit your map! Show them how it is done.
3 Rich // Aug 16, 2007 at 9:13 am

OK, fair enough.

Its time to put up or shut-up. Ill submit a map or better yet Ill just submit a picture of my map.

…certainly you see the pointlessness. Dont they already do this…its called the ESRI Map Book and it is desperately provided at ever users conference, and federal users conference, and dev conference, and so on.

I would expect the opening of this site to tout something other then a jpg. Nonetheless you are right…
4 Bill // Aug 16, 2007 at 1:40 pm

I walked through it far enough to see that you also have the option of upload AGX NMF files so you can share something interactive. They just haven’t supplied any themselves.

That could be a nice feature if it works well.
5 Brian Flood // Aug 16, 2007 at 3:13 pm

I thought it performed much better then previous builds. I’m running on Vista with the stars option turned off…

cheers
brian
6 Cellulose // Aug 16, 2007 at 3:36 pm

You know, I think ESRI could get a lot more slack if they just took a page out of Google’s strategy book. Just slap “BETA” on everything and the problem is solved.

“Of course you can’t download the NMF files… it’s only a BETA!” –Automatic Technical Support Bot (Beta Version)
7 KoS // Aug 16, 2007 at 6:06 pm

Or slap interim product on it. We do.

KoS
8 slim pickins // Aug 16, 2007 at 6:22 pm

Better yet, label it 9.2, but set the metadata to version 1.0, so the geeks cut you some slack.
9 Rex // Aug 18, 2007 at 6:13 pm

So whats the final word on commercial use of ArcGIS Exlorer.
10 Bower // Aug 22, 2007 at 12:45 pm

So what are the optimal settings for AGX as to not make me want to throw my monitor across the room? I realize they say it’s not competition for GE, but come on here…let’s be honest. The only difference is that it’s slower - even with the vector data. In the time I was waiting for ESRI’s imagery to load in AGX, I was able to open GE, go to a website to get the KMZ file I was looking for, and zoom to the location. It’s like ArcReader on a bunk batch of steroids - even local vector data loads quicker in ArcReader Ok, I’m done complaining now…. I’m just disappointed with the concept because we are moving to ArcGIS Server in the near future and really need it to run smoothly.