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:

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

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

• We used the new geoprocessing tools for data processing.
• 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.
• Enhanced cartographic tools gave us out-of-the-box TV quality maps.
• 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.