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I haven't see the actual CBS material yet, but it might provide some quick
graphics for publications without rich GIS support.

-jtj
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ESRI and the 2004 U.S. Election Coverage

Dear ESRI User Community:

The U.S. elections are quickly approaching, and we want to tell you
about an exciting project that ESRI has been working on with CBS Evening News.
ESRI has created a vast collection of demographic and results maps that are
scheduled to be displayed several times during election night by correspondent
John Roberts. On November 2, you can tune in to CBS to see many firsts for
geographic information systems (GIS) and TV media such as

a.. First use of GIS to report U.S. presidential election results
on election night
b.. First maps showing up-to-the-minute county-level results
c.. First maps showing results in 3D
d.. First maps showing detailed demographics

The election maps highlight the use of ArcGIS 9 in the following
ways:

a.. We used the new geoprocessing tools for data processing.
b.. We will use ArcGlobe to show which presidential candidate is
leading in each county by extruding the polygons as the votes come in. We will
stitch the frames together to form an animation.
c.. Enhanced cartographic tools gave us out-of-the-box TV quality
maps.
d.. ArcGIS Engine will enable us to generate hundreds of maps each
hour on election night. In the past few weeks, we used ArcGIS Engine to generate
thousands of demographic maps.

Visit www.esri.com/elections to learn more about how GIS is used to
support election mapping.

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