ArcGIS Explorer - Drag and drop files

Drag and drop files

You can add content of various types of data to ArcGIS Explorer by using the items under the Add Content button in the Map group on the Home tab. Each of these items presents a dialog box that you can use to specify the files you want to work with.

In addition to this method of working with files, you can drag files from Windows Explorer onto the map display of a running instance of ArcGIS Explorer and the application will handle the file as if you had selected it in the dialog box. Dragging and dropping files with these extensions onto ArcGIS Explorer are supported at this time:

ArcGIS Explorer map content files (*.nmc)
Keyhole® Markup Language files (*.kml)
Compressed Keyhole Markup Language files (*.kmz)
Shapefiles (*.shp)
Text files (*.txt, *.csv)