2. GIS Software Product Descriptions

ArcView GIS 3.x - The leading mapping and GIS software for the desktop.

Optional ArcView Extensions:

ArcView 3D Analyst provides a suite of high-quality, easy-to-use tools for creating, analyzing, and visualizing surface data another three dimensional data.

ArcView Internet Map Server is an out-of-the-box map publishing tool for the World Wide Web. It includes a Java applet for map display across the Web.

ArcView Spatial Analyst introduces a broad range of powerful new spatial modeling and analysis features previously not available to desktop users.This new extension allows you to create, query, map, and analyze cell-based raster data and to perform integrated vector-raster analysis.

ArcView Network Analyst enables you to solve a variety of problems using geographic networks (i.e., streets, highways, rivers, pipelines, electric lines, etc.) such as finding the most efficient travel route, generating travel directions, finding the closest facility, or defining service areas based on travel time.

ArcView StreetMap adds nationwide (U.S.) address geocoding and street map display to ArcView GIS and includes a compressed street and landmark database for the entire United States on a single CD.

ArcGIS 8.x - Professional family of desktop GIS software.

             ArcView 8.x - ArcView 8.x maintains the base functionality of ArcView 3.x and adds a host of improvements driven by user requests. New features include a catalog for browsing and managing data, on-the-fly coordinate and datum projection, metadata creation, customization with built-in VBA, new editor tools, support for static annotation, enhanced cartographic tools, direct access to Internet data, and much more.

             ArcEditor 8.x - ArcEditor contains all the functionality of ArcView and adds the power to edit features in a multiuser geodatabase includin

  • Topology
  • Versioning
  • Custom feature classes
  • Feature-linked annotation
  • Dimensioning
  • Rasters in a multiuser geodatabase
  • Multiuser editing

           ArcInfo 8.x - Within the ArcGIS software family, ArcInfo is the most comprehensive GIS available. It includes all the functionality of ArcView and ArcEditor and adds the advanced geoprocessing and data conversion capabilities that make ArcInfo the de facto standard for GIS. ArcInfo is the complete GIS data creation, update, query, mapping, and analysis system. ArcInfo is composed of ArcInfo Desktop and ArcInfo Workstation.

ArcCAD - Full GIS functionality within AutoCAD

ArcLogistics Route - A complete vehicle routing and scheduling solution on the desktop

Spatial Database Engine - Universal spatial server that integrates tabular and spatial data in a commercial DBMS.

MapObjects - With MapObjects you can add dynamic mapping and GIS capabilities to your existing Windows applications or build your own custom mapping and GIS solutions. Developing applications with MapObjects is easy and fast. MapObjects works in standard Windows development environments such as Visual BasicŪ, Visual C++, DelphiŪ, PowerBuilderŪ, and others. (Windows)

 
 

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