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The Data Basin developers are currently working to allow the import and visualization of time-enabled datasets. This screencast gives a short preview of how users will be able to interact with time-enabled data in the live map viewer. In addition to viewing animations in the map, users will also be able to save animated data as a movie to easily share with others.

Who doesn’t like maps? Our director James Strittholt has said before that maps are a unifying object from which people can find common ground. You can take a group of people, spread out a map on the table and everyone will begin dreaming, talking and telling stories. Data Basin is not much different and, from the beginning, we have been thrilled by how much the community has taught us how it will be used. 

Over my career I can’t recall how many paper napkin maps I have digitized into datasets.

In the entryway to the Conservation Biology Institute offices is a map we printed in 2004 of the Late Seral Forest of the Pacific Northwest, that was displayed in the American Museum of Natural History.

We've finally returned from presenting Data Basin at 2 separate conferences - the 2009 ESRI User's Conference in San Diego, and the Society for Conservation GIS meeting in Big Bear, CA. At both conferences, we gave live demos of the redesigned version of Data Basin powered by ArcGIS Online & Server technology (more on this later).

We're now part of the way through the 2009 ESRI User Conference in San Diego, presenting our redesign of Data Basin (more info on this later). So far we've had several great meetings with folks to show them Data Basin and get new ideas of things to build to better address their needs.

See us in the Conservation Hall (ballroom 20d) until Thurs at 1:30 PM. Lots of exciting new developments to show off!