{"id":188301,"date":"2010-01-13T20:04:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T20:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=188301"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:57:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T19:57:36","slug":"integrating-explorer-notes-with-arcgis-desktop","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-desktop\/mapping\/integrating-explorer-notes-with-arcgis-desktop","title":{"rendered":"Integrating Explorer notes with ArcGIS Desktop"},"author":4571,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[25591,42281],"industry":[],"product":[36991],"class_list":["post-188301","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-arcgis-desktop","tag-explorer","product-arcgis-desktop"],"acf":{"short_description":"Layer packages are an excellent way to combine ArcGIS cartography with data to be shared with ArcGIS Explorer users","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><a title=\"About layer packages\" href=\"http:\/\/webhelp.esri.com\/arcgisdesktop\/9.3\/index.cfm?id=220&amp;pid=212&amp;topicname=Saving_a_layer_to_disk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Layer packages<\/a>\u00a0are an excellent way to\u00a0combine ArcGIS cartography\u00a0with data to be shared\u00a0with ArcGIS Explorer users, but how about using Explorer maps and layers in ArcGIS Desktop?\u00a0We\u2019re working on an integrated\u00a0capability that will be delivered in a future release, but in the meanwhile we discovered a couple of solutions\u00a0recently posted\u00a0by the\u00a0ESRI user community on the\u00a0<a title=\"ArcScripts\" href=\"http:\/\/arcscripts.esri.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ArcScripts<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"resources.esri.com\" href=\"http:\/\/resources.esri.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Resource Center<\/a>\u00a0sites.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s\u00a0<a title=\"View ArcScript\" href=\"http:\/\/arcscripts.esri.com\/details.asp?dbid=16759\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one contributed by Anthony Lopez<\/a>\u00a0via ArcScripts. 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