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About ArcGIS for Desktop 10 |
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ArcGIS 10 transforms the way people use GIS. Be more productive with your work and take advantage of GIS everywhere: via individual local desktops, across desktops and browsers leveraging central servers, and in the cloud. |
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ArcGIS for Desktop Basic (ArcView) features include:
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| Increased Productivity |
- Search by keywords or data types to find data, symbols, and maps quickly.
- Browse and add data directly from Catalog window in ArcMap.
- Simplify map creation and production with streamlined sketch-based Desktop (2D/3D) and Web editing.
- Automate map production with Python and map books.
- Save time through faster display, smoother navigation, and the ability to run geoprocessing in the background.
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| Powerful Spatial Analysis |
- Create models and perform analysis quickly and easily.
- Combine ArcGIS with other scientific programming to reveal powerful answers in your data.
- Take advantage of new analysis tools such as fuzzy overlay and location/allocation.
- Create, manage, and visualize time-aware data for more in-depth analysis.
- Perform in 3D virtually everything you can do in a 2D environment: modeling, editing, visualization, and analysis.
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| Improved Access to Imagery |
- Use and manage imagery more efficiently on the desktop and on the server.
- Experience faster performance with accelerated image display.
- Save time by using the image analysis window for image interpretation and processing.
- Easily manage massive image collections with dynamic mosaicking and on-the-fly processing.
- Efficiently serve dynamic image mosaics to many applications.
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| New Ways to Share |
- Increase collaboration via tight integration with ArcGIS Online search and share capabilities.
- Easily create and share your work, which may include data, layers, maps, tools, scenes, globes, diagrams, and add-ins.
- Discover and organize geographic data throughout the enterprise via the new Search service in ArcGIS Server.
- Enable feature-level editing via Web applications.
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| Cloud GIS |
- ArcGIS is Now Online - Use online maps and tools that are a built-in part of ArcGIS, whether you're using ArcGIS Desktop, a mobile device, a browser, or if you're developing applications using the ArcGIS Web Mapping APIs.
- Find, share, organize, and use maps, apps, and other resources via ArcGIS.com - A Web-based gateway into the ArcGIS system.
- Discover, share, and present geographic information using ArcGIS Explorer Online, a new browser-based version of ArcGIS Exlorer.
- Use ArcGIS Server on the Amazon cloud.
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| Expanded GIS in the Field |
- Extended mobile projects to tablet-based PCs using the ArcGIS Mobile customizable, ready to deploy application.
- Leverage ArcGIS Mobile with ArcGIS Desktop and access geoprocessing tools to create, edit, and sync mobile caches to your device.
- Simplify ArcGIS Mobile deployments using the new Mobile Project Center.
- Use streming GPS, photo attachments, and location tracking.
- Access a new iPhone mapping application directly from the Apple iTunes App Store.
- Build your own iPhone applications using the ArcGIS API for iPhone.
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| More Flexible Deployment |
- Easily install and manage ArcGIS Desktop licenses.
- Borrow ArcGIS Desktop 10 licenses for temporary use away from the office (e.g., field units, work from home, business travel).
- Leverage GIS everywhere: via Web-extended desktops, Web-hosted applications, and cloud GIS.
- Extend ArcGIS use through flexible Amazon Machine Image (AMI) hosting capabilities.
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| Better for Developers |
- Use simple to share and deploy add-ins or Python to extend the desktop applications.
- Easily build applications with additional Web APIs and streamlined software developer kits (SDKs).
- Enjoy a simplified developer experience through a single ArcObjects_.NET_SDK as well as single ArcObjects Java SDK for ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Engine, and ArcGIS Server.
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