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Arc GIS 8.0.x
ArcGIS is a family of software products that form a complete GIS built on industry standards that provide exceptional, yet easy to use, capabilities right out of the box. ArcGIS is a complete, single, integrated system for geographic data creation, management, integration, and analysis.
Much more than a specialized offering for a small niche of specialists, ArcGIS is designed as a scalable system that can be deployed in every organization, from an individual desktop to a globally distributed network of people. |
Arc Info
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.
ArcInfo Desktop includes all the functionality of ArcEditor and adds a complete set of data management, analysis, and conversion tools to the ArcToolbox application. With these tools, you can perform data conversion, generalization, aggregation, overlays, buffer creation, statistical calculations, and much more. Each of these tools has a menu-driven interface with wizards where appropriate. ArcInfo Desktop operates on Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.
ArcInfo Workstation provides geoprocessing via the classic user interface (ARC, ARCEDIT, ARCPLOT, ARC Macro Language [AML], and more). In addition to providing the user environment familiar to many ArcInfo users and found in countless existing GIS applications, ArcInfo Workstation includes fundamental and matchless geoprocessing functionality. ArcInfo Workstation operates on Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and several UNIX platforms |
Arc View
ArcView is the world's most popular desktop GIS and mapping software, with more than 500,000 copies in use worldwide. ArcView provides data visualization, query, analysis, and integration capabilities along with the ability to create and edit geographic data.
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.
ArcView 8.x is an exceptional stand-alone GIS as well as the entry point to ArcGIS, an integrated and scalable family of GIS software products. ArcGIS consists of ArcView, ArcEditor, ArcInfo, ArcIMS, and ArcSDE. ArcGIS extends ArcView by providing multi-user editing, advanced analysis, Internet services, and high performance spatial database services. |
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