{"id":75,"date":"2010-09-01T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=75"},"modified":"2010-09-01T10:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T10:52:00","slug":"visibility-analysis-for-arcgis-explorer-wheres-that-wind-turbine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Visibility Analysis for ArcGIS Explorer: Where&#8217;s that wind turbine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well here is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=9722bafc77774c9f940414f152997861\">interesting tool<\/a> for the increasingly popular and powerful free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/software\/arcgis\/explorer\/index.html\">ArcGIS Explorer<\/a>, select a point on your map and run the tool. &nbsp;Hey presto I will be able to see that wind turbine!<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Yz9w28cDOmU\/TH4vaNYmn6I\/AAAAAAAADxk\/fCmcVTc8sus\/s1600\/visibility_analysis.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Yz9w28cDOmU\/TH4vaNYmn6I\/AAAAAAAADxk\/fCmcVTc8sus\/s320\/visibility_analysis.jpg?resize=320%2C169\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Now fitting in with topical ideas of big societies and local empowerment, I can imagine some communities using these types of free tools to analyse for themselves the impact of new development.<\/p>\n<p>There are more tools and add-ins being developed for ArcGIS Explorer and one wonders whether GIS professionals will be in trouble!<\/p>\n<p><b><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">Update: Looks like my link was very clear so here it is again&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=9722bafc77774c9f940414f152997861\"><b><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">ArcGIS Visibility Analysis tool.<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well here is an interesting tool for the increasingly popular and powerful free ArcGIS Explorer, select a point on your map and run the tool. &nbsp;Hey presto I will be able to see that wind turbine! Now fitting in with topical ideas of big societies and local empowerment, I can imagine some communities using these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,104,105,7,17,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-arcgis","category-arcgis-explorer","category-bigsociety","category-gis","category-maps","category-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}