Key Features

Data Editing and Productivity Tools

• Use a complete set of tools to create, edit, and ensure the quality of the data.
• Perform simple data input and cleanup as well as sophisticated design and versioning.
• Edit a multiuser geodatabase.
• Disconnect from the database and edit in the field.
• Perform advanced manipulation of geographic data to help automate the editing workflow with advanced COGO editing tools, construction tools, and conflict detection and resolution tools.
• Speed up data maintenance and automation with CAD-like editing and productivity tools.
• Design new work plans and work orders to share across the enterprise as well as store stages of a workflow process.
• Store individual stages of a workflow process in your database.
• Store different views of map layers that represent possible what-if scenarios without affecting the layers as they are actually built.
• Store historical snapshots of your data.
• Link map text to tables in your database.
• Add dimensions to your maps.
• Create spatial data from scanned maps.
• Perform raster to vector conversion.

View demo: Windows Media [04:59]

Defining and Preserving Data Integrity

• Maintain the high quality of your data by automatically locating and fixing errors according to rules and behaviors you set for your database.
• Build validation rules directly into your data.
• Build and maintain spatial relationships between features using topology rules and a process called validation.
• Model connectivity specifically for linear networks with geometric networks.

View demo: Windows Media [06:30]

Multiuser Editing

• Allow multiple users to simultaneously modify the same data without interfering with each other, taking the data offline, or creating multiple copies of your data.
• Undo or redo changes made to the database, monitor how the database has evolved over time, and evaluate multiple what-if scenarios.
• Edit in the field with disconnected editing.
• Support multiple workflows with advanced long transactions.
• Manage alternative engineering designs.
• Manage work order processing (e.g., proposed to approved to as-built).
• Implement QA procedures for validating edits.

View demo: Windows Media [02:04]

Quality Mapping 

• Author maps using simple wizards and an extensive suite of map elements.
• Use predefined map templates that save you time and make it easy to create a consistent style in your maps.
• Create interactive maps from file, database, and online sources.
• Create interactive maps that link nonspatial data to specific locations.
• Create interactive maps that allow you to access a wide variety of digital data.
• Create street-level maps that incorporate GPS locations.
• View CAD data or satellite images.
• Generate reports and charts.
• Save, print, export, or embed completed maps in other documents or applications.

View map interaction demo: Windows Media [02:26]
View map display demo: Windows Media [02:20]
View map symbology and labeling demo: Windows Media [01:34]

Spatial Analysis 

• Analyze spatial data and derive answers from data of a location-dependent nature.
• Visually model and spatially analyze a process or workflow.
• Use a geoprocessing framework that includes ready-to-use analysis tools as well as the ability to build process models, scripts, and complete workflows. 

Data Use and Integration

• Create and manage geographic data, tabular data, and metadata.
• Use a wide variety of data types including demographics, facilities, CAD drawings, imagery, Web services, and multimedia.
• Directly read or import more than 70 different formats in ArcView.

View tabular data creation and integration demo: Windows Media [06:03]
View Web data integration demo: Windows Media [06:30]

Ready-to-Use Datasets
 
Begin your visualization and analysis right away with the included ESRI Data & Maps Media Kit, which is updated annually and preconfigured to work specifically with ESRI software. The ESRI Data & Maps Media Kit contains more than 24 GB of data including

• Basemap and thematic MXDs for Canada, Europe, Mexico, the United States, and the world
• Commercial data from Tele Atlas, AND Mapping, DMTI Spatial, WorldSat, EarthSat, EuroGeographics, Michael Bauer Research, World Wildlife Fund, SIGSA, and ESRI
• Ninety-meter Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) dataset

GIS Deployment

View, navigate, and print published ArcGIS maps using ArcReader (.pmf files).
Deploy your GIS data-share and deliver interactive maps based on dynamic content.
Offer novices and professionals alike a way to view and query your published maps.

Map Viewing and Navigation

Perform basic map navigation such as zooming and panning and switching between map and page layout view.
Communicate more efficiently with the ability to graphically mark up maps.
Utilize ArcWeb Services in ArcReader including route, nearby place, and address finding.

Data Query and Exploration

Use ArcReader tools such as Find and Identify to explore a variety of geographic data including raster and vector data.
Use tools such as Identify, Find, Measure, Hyperlink, and Magnifier Window to discover information not available when working with static paper maps.

Map Printing

Print published map documents and published globe documents including all layer symbology and cartographic map elements on any supported printer.

Configurable and Customizable

• Using the ArcGIS Publisher wizard, you can control the appearance of the ArcReader application when it opens a map.
  Create custom ArcReader applications or embed ArcReader capabilities into existing applications using the ArcGIS Publisher developer controls. See the PublisherControls Library Overview on the EDN Web site.
• ArcGIS Online includes optimized, ready-to-use content and capabilities such as 2D maps, 3D globes, and reference layers. ArcGIS Online services are always available on the Web so that users with Internet access can use these services at any time.