ArcView is the entry level licensing level of ArcGIS Desktop, a geographic information system software product produced by ESRI. It is intended by ESRI to be the logical migration path from ArcView 3.x.

History

ArcView 8.x and 9.x

ArcView 8.x and 9.x are part of the ArcGIS Desktop software suite. ArcView is the entry level of licensing offered, it is able to view & edit GIS data held in flat files or, through ArcSDE view data held in a relational database management system. Other licensing levels in the suite, namely ArcEditor and ArcInfo have greater functionality. All components are installed on the system, with only those that are licensed being made functional. The current version of ArcView sold by ESRI is 9.2, it is available for the Microsoft Windows 2000, XP 32 and 64-bit, and 2003 Server operating systems.

The ArcView software is split between ArcMap & ArcCatalog. ArcMap is used for map composition and geographic analysis. ArcCatalog is used for geographic data management.

See also

• ArcInfo
• Shapefile

References

Further reading

• Tim Ormsby, Extending ArcView GIS: with Network Analyst, Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst, ESRI Press, 1999, ISBN 1-879102-05-6

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