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ArcView 1.0 was released in 1991 [2] to provide access to GIS for non-traditional users of the technology. ESRI's flagship professional GIS at the time, Arc/INFO, was based on a command line interface and was not accessible to users that only needed view and query capability.
ArcView, now referred to as ArcGIS for Desktop Basic, [1] 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 .
In 2010, Esri announced that the prospective version 9.4 would become version 10 and would ship in the second quarter of 2010. [48] The ArcGIS 10.3 release included ArcGIS Pro 1.0, which became available in January 2015. On October 21, 2020 Esri publicly announced that this would be the last release of ArcGIS Desktop. [49]
The names ArcView and ArcInfo were used for a while to name different levels of licensing in ArcGIS Desktop, and less often refer to these original software products. The Windows version of ArcGIS is now the only ArcGIS Desktop platform that is undergoing new development for future product releases. [citation needed]
ArcMap is the former main component of Esri's ArcGIS suite of geospatial processing programs. Used primarily to view, edit, create, and analyze geospatial data. ArcMap allows the user to explore data within a data set, symbolize features accordingly, and create maps.
ArcGIS Pro is desktop GIS software developed by Esri, which replaces their ArcMap software generation. [1] The product was announced as part of Esri's ArcGIS 10.3 release, [2] ArcGIS Pro is notable in having a 64 bit architecture, combined 2-D, 3-D support, ArcGIS Online integration and Python 3 support.
The shapefile format was introduced with ArcView GIS version 2 in the early 1990s. It is now possible to read and write geographical datasets using the shapefile format with a wide variety of software. The shapefile format stores the geometry as primitive geometric shapes like points, lines, and polygons.
FalconView – A mapping system created by the Georgia Tech Research Institute for Windows. A free, open source version is available. Kalypso – Uses Java and GML3. Focuses mainly on numerical simulations in water management. TerraView – Handles vector and raster data stored in a relational or geo-relational database, i.e. a frontend for ...