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 (
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
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
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)