Free Explorer Applications

ESRI offers two freely downloadable applications that you can use to view and discover geographic information.

NOTE: ArcGIS Explorer is ESRI's primary tool for exploring, sharing, and presenting your geographic information, and it is updated frequently. ESRI development resources are no longer devoted to ArcExplorer.

ArcGIS Explorer

A desktop client that can fuse your local data with 2D and 3D content published to the Web. Find out more.

ArcExplorer

A lightweight GIS data viewer that allows you to perform basic GIS functions. Find out more.

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Interactive presentation tools
Access to continually updated basemaps and layers from ArcGIS Online
Ability to add HTML-capable pop-up windows
Customizable
Dedicated online Resource Center
Identify and query
Spatial analysis
Support for
Layer packages
Shapefiles
Common raster formats
2D/3D
KML/KMZ
Data stored in a geodatabase
GeoRSS
Access to online services
ArcIMS services
ArcGIS Server services
WMS services