The wait is finally over. ESRI’s free downloadable GIS viewer, ArcGIS Explorer 900 has been released and is available for download. This new release comes with significant changes to the user experience and lots of new features. Some of which include:

  • New ribbon-based interface
  • Easy access to ArcGIS Online base maps via the basemap gallery
  • Integrated 2D/3D display
  • Support for layer packages(*.lpk)
  • Better KML support
  • Presentation mode
  • Localization
  • Projections
  • Expansion packs

For a better description of these features, jump over to the blog post announcing the release http://blogs.esri.com/Info/blogs/arcgisexplorerblog/… or view a slideshow online

The .NET SDK and optional expansion packs can be downloaded here http://resources.esri.com/arcgisexplorer/…

 
This is no new news (definitely not for users of ESRI products), but for all those who may have missed the buzz around the latest version of ArcGIS Explorer which is soon to be released during the ESRI Developer Summit ’09, here’s a quick preview of the upcoming 900 version.

 
For those of you who are not aware, ESRI publishes video tutorials on its free subscription channel at Viddler.com on its wide range of products.

Here’s one interesting video on how one can enhance the search and find capabilities of ArcGIS Explorer by adding a Geonames Search task that is available from the resource center.

The Explorer team did a good work by not just running through the process of finding places using this task, but rather had a story with an objective to find a place in Glacier National Park, Montana.

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