ArcView, now referred to as
ArcGIS for Desktop Basic,
New name for Arc VIEW
/ref> is the entry-level licensing level of ArcGIS Desktop, a geographic information system
A geographic information system (GIS) consists of integrated computer hardware and Geographic information system software, software that store, manage, Spatial analysis, analyze, edit, output, and Cartographic design, visualize Geographic data ...
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 and edit GIS data held in a flat file database or through ArcSDE, ST-Links PgMap view data held in a relational database management system
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. 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 10.
The ArcView software is split between ArcMap and ArcCatalog. ArcMap is used for map composition and geographic analysis. ArcCatalog is used for geographic data management.
See also
* ArcInfo
* Shapefile
* ArcView 3.x
References
Further reading
*Tim Ormsby, ''Extending ArcView GIS: with Network Analyst, Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst'', ESRI Press, 1999,
* Kevin Howard and Robert J. Hallett Jr.,
Robust Application Development in ArcView
', 1998
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