ArcView Software
Create Maps Showing Your Data

ArcView is a desktop geographic information system. With ArcView you can create intelligent, dynamic maps using data from virtually any source and across most popular computing platforms. ArcView provides the tools to let you work with maps, database tables, charts, and graphics all at once. You can also use multimedia links to add pictures, sound, and video to your maps.

ArcView makes it easy to create maps and add your own data to them. Using ArcView software's powerful visualization tools, you can access records from existing databases and display them on maps.

Integrate Data in Powerful New Ways

ArcView makes it easy to integrate data from all over your organization and work with the data geographically. Get more from your investment in data by using the data in new ways.

See the Big Picture

In no time you will be working with your data geographically: seeing patterns you could not see before, revealing hidden trends and distributions, and gaining new insights. What will you see when you map your data with ArcView?

Solve Real-World Problems

Working geographically enables you to understand relationships between the forces that drive your business so you will make better decisions and get the power you need to solve problems faster.

Present Your Work

Presenting your results and ideas is easy with ArcView. You can make great-looking publication-quality maps and create interactive displays by linking charts, tables, drawings, photographs, and other files. You will find that communicating geographically is a powerful way to inform and motivate others.

Develop Map-Based Applications

Give others the power to work geographically! Using Avenue, ArcView software's built-in object-oriented scripting language, you can quickly develop custom tools, interfaces, and complete applications. So it is easy to put ArcView to work in your organization.

Extensions and Utilities Bundled with ArcView 3.3

Projection Utility
Projects shapefiles into a common coordinate system. The projection utility supports a number of projections and datum conversions including NAD27 to NAD83. A wizard-driven interface allows the user to select the data source to be projected, select the new projection, adjust or accept the default projection parameters, and specify the output data source name. A new shapefile and a new projection (.prj) file that contains information about the resulting projection parameters for the new shapefile are created.

Report Writer
The Report Writer extension integrates the industry-leading Crystal Decisions' Crystal Reports report generation and editing application with the existing ArcView Table, View, and Project user interface. Crystal Reports comes with ArcView 3.1 and higher. The Report Writer extension is not available on UNIX.

CADReader
The CADReader extension supports up to AutoCAD 2000 (Release 15) and AutoCAD 2002 drawing and DXF files. The extension also supports three-dimensional CAD drawings that can be read by ArcView 3D Analyst for analysis and interactive perspective viewing.

Database Access
Database Access provides seamless interfaces to data stored in ESRI's ArcSDE databases and ODBC-compliant databases.

Dialog Designer
The Dialog Designer extension allows Avenue programmers to build custom dialogs within ArcView. Standard form controls such as command buttons, radio buttons, list boxes, slider bars, and icons are available through Dialog Designer.

Digitizer
The Digitizer extension provides support for digitizers, allowing for the direct entry of data using standard Windows WinTAB drivers. The extension supports stream mode digitizing. The Digitizer extension is not available on UNIX.

GeoProcessing
The GeoProcessing extension is a wizard-based tool for performing spatial analysis functions in ArcView including dissolve, merge, clip, intersect, union, and spatial join. (A buffer function is available through a menu choice in ArcView.)

Graticules and Measured Grids
The Graticules and Measured Grids extension is a wizard-based interface for adding graticules and measured grids to layouts. Graticules show latitude and longitude on a map. A measured grid is a set of lines or tic marks and labels that represent linear distance in meters.

Image Readers
The Image Reader extensions provide direct-read support for ADRG, CADRG, CIB, IMAGINE, JPEG (JFIF), MrSID, NITF, and TIFF 6.0.

Legend Tool
The Legend Tool extension allows you to create a customized graphical legend in a layout using a set of wizard panels.

Military Data Reader
The Military Data Reader extensions allow ArcView to directly read a variety of image data formats typically of interest to the defense/intelligence community. These extensions include support for the following formats:

• Arc Digitized Raster Graphics (ADRG Image Support extension)
• Compressed Arc Digitized Raster Graphics (CADRG Image Support extension)
• Controlled Image Base (CIB Image Support extension)
• National Image Transfer Format (NITF Image Support extension)

VPF Viewer
The VPF Viewer extension allows vector product format (VPF) data to be read directly by ArcView. The VPF Direct Read function can add 3D VPF Themes as three-dimensional type files. The VPF Direct Reader will automatically detect whether a VPF theme is three-dimensional and add it accordingly. (To view the files in full three-dimensionality, ArcView 3D Analyst is required).

DXF Export
A data conversion utility providing shape to DXF output.

SDTS Data Import
A data import utility that imports SDTS raster and point data. ESRI GRID files and ArcView point shapefiles are created, respectively.

DIGEST (ASRP/USRP)
This sample extension provides direct read support for raster data compliant with DIGEST Annex A, a format primarily used by international defense and military agencies. The reader georeferences DIGEST images. There are two profiles: Arc Standard Raster Product (ASRP), produced by the UK Mil Survey, and UTM/Universe Polar Stereographic (UPS) (USRP), produced by the French Defense Mapping Agency. The sample extension supports ASRP 1.1 and 1.2 and USRP 1.2 and 1.3.

MGRS Coordinate Display
This sample extension provides interactive display of coordinates on the screen in the Military Grid Reference System (MGRS). MGRS is a coordinate system widely used in defense for designating the location of points of interest. The extension reads source data in decimal degrees, converts the coordinates to MGRS, and displays the MGRS coordinates in a dialog box in real time. The extension converts MGRS coordinates to UTM/UPS and latitude/longitude. As an option, the user can save the UTM/UPS and latitude/longitude coordinates in a separate file. The utility also generates graticules within an MGRS zone for WGS84.

S-57 Data Converter
The S-57 data format is defined in the International Hydrographic Organization's Special Publication S-57. This format was formerly referred to as DX-90. S-57 is object-oriented vector data stored in binary format. This sample extension converts the converted binary S-57 (ENC) data to ArcView shapefiles. The extension supports all data types from S-57: spatial objects (connected nodes, isolated nodes, edges, and faces) and feature objects (point, node, line, area, and composite).

RPF Indexer
This sample extension uses the geographic extent of each raster product format (RPF) data set and generates a shapefile that can be used as an index theme for RPF image formats. The index theme helps the user choose the images of interest for easier display. The user selects a block or draws a box on the index the me in the View document to display the corresponding images. The user can click on the block (or user-drawn box) again and the images will undraw.

Optional Extensions:

• ArcView Spatial Analyst
• ArcView 3D Analyst
• ArcView Tracking Analyst
• ArcView Business Analyst
• ArcView Network Analyst
• ArcView StreetMap
• ArcPress for ArcView
  

The ArcView Spatial Analyst 2 extension for Windows includes ESRI's ModelBuilder technology for building and sharing spatial models.

ArcView Spatial Analyst provides a broad range of powerful spatial modeling and analysis features previously not available to desktop users. This extension allows you to create, query, map, and analyze cell-based raster data and to perform integrated vector-raster analysis.

With Spatial Analyst you can:

• Convert feature themes (point, line, or polygon) to grid themes.
• Create raster buffers based on distance or proximity from feature or grid themes. .
• Create density maps from themes containing point features.
• Create continuous surfaces from scattered point features.
• Create contour, slope, and aspect maps and hillshades of these surfaces.
• Do cell-based map analysis.
• Perform Boolean queries and algebraic calculations on multiple grid themes simultaneously.
• Perform neighborhood and zone analysis.
• Do grid classification and display, and more.

Unique to ArcView Spatial Analyst is the ability not only to work with raster-based data (including the ability to overlay, query, and display multiple raster themes) but also to do integrated raster-vector theme analysis such as aggregating properties of a raster theme based on an overlaid vector theme. For example, direct mail campaigns can be focused on customers within complex polygon areas that are determined by spatial analysis of drive time and proximity to service centers.

ArcView Spatial Analyst is particularly well suited for providing solutions to problems that require distance or other continuous surface modeling information to be considered as part of the analysis. For example, site suitability analysis often requires combining information about slope (information best represented as raster data), as well as the location of roads and property boundaries (information best represented as vector data) to arrive at the best location for a new facility. Spatial Analyst can not only generate the appropriate surface representation of information from a variety of existing data sources, but it can also derive new information from the overlay of multiple theme types. The results are then used to suggest possible solutions to the original problem.

ArcView 3D Analyst

An optional ArcView extension that helps users integrate 3D data into their analysis.

• Create and modify surface models.
• Create 3D shapefile themes.
• Simple editing of TINs.
• Planimetric display of surfaces.

Extend the Power of ArcView with ArcView 3D Analyst

The ArcView 3D Analyst extension enables users to create, analyze, and display surface data. This generic surface modeling package is ideal for both the novice and the advanced user, its functionality answering the needs of those performing tasks related to surface analysis and display. Unique features of ArcView 3D Analyst include support for triangulated irregular networks (TINs) and simple three-dimensional vector geometry, as well as interactive perspective viewing.

In ArcView 3D Analyst, the most commonly used functions are accessible from pull down menus and tool buttons that are added to the ArcView interface when the extension is installed.

ArcView Tracking Analyst

ESRI and TASC, a global leader in GIS technology solutions, are pleased to announce the joint development of ArcView Tracking Analyst, a new extension that allows direct feed and playback of real-time data, such as Global Positioning System (GPS) data, within the ArcView environment.

The addition of real-time tracking capabilities to the ArcView environment further extends the data collection and analysis power of ArcView to a variety of new applications.

Real-Time Analysis

In addition to direct feed and playback of real-time data, ArcView Tracking Analyst will also allow temporal and spatial analysis of these data in real time. There are many potential applications for this technology including vehicle tracking, aircraft tracking, wildlife tracking, and much more.

"ArcView Tracking Analyst is the first product that lets desktop mapping and GIS software users take full advantage of the power of GPS technology," said Jack Dangermond, president of ESRI. "GPS technology offers an inexpensive, immediate, and convenient way to collect data. The Tracking Analyst gives users an immediate and easy way to display and analyze this valuable information."

"Seamlessly integrating the capabilities of GIS and GPS technologies is what makes ArcView Tracking Analyst so powerful and what TASC does best," said Mark Gildersleeve, TASC senior vice president. "We're excited to build on our years of work with ESRI, which started back with ArcExpress. Now, with Tracking Analyst, users can easily display and manipulate large volumes of real-time data within the GIS environment."

A Rich Set of Tools

The most commonly used Tracking Analyst extension tools are available via pulldown menus and buttons added to the ArcView user interface at installation. These menus and buttons are fully customizable by the user through Avenue, ArcView software's built-in object-oriented development environment. Additional functionality beyond what is available through the user interface is available to support sophisticated custom application development.

ArcView Tracking Analyst functionality available through ArcView pulldown menus and buttons includes:

• Receipt, processing, and display of real-time data as geo-events
• Playback of previous data
• Logging and archiving of real-time data

ArcView Network Analyst

The ArcView Network Analyst extension enables users to solve a variety of problems using geographic networks (i.e., streets, highways, rivers, pipelines, electric lines, etc.) such as finding the most efficient travel route, generating travel directions, finding the closest facility, or defining service areas based on travel time. (Click on the image to see an example application.)

ArcView Network Analyst adds an integrated graphical user interface providing access to the network modeling capabilities including:

• Find the most direct path between two points - What's the most direct way from my current location to the nearest library and can it provide directions?
• Find the optimum route between many points - What's the optimum route for my sales calls and can I get directions?
• Find the closest facility - Which ATM is closest to my hotel and how do I get there?
• Drive time analysis - What are the three-minute, five-minute, and 10-minute drive zones around a potential fast food restaurant location and how many customers are within those zones?

ArcView Network Analyst can also do point-to-point routing (known as mid-arc routing, as opposed to endpoint-to-endpoint routing) and can reference local landmarks when reporting route directions. The geographic network data can be based on ArcInfo coverages, shapefiles, or CAD drawings.

ArcView Network Analyst also includes a suite of more advanced network analysis tools that can be accessed through Avenue requests. Developers will be able to deliver very sophisticated network analysis applications based on these extended capabilities.

ArcView StreetMap

The ArcView StreetMap extension provides a single CD-ROM that allows street-level geocoding and display for the entire United States. The CD-ROM includes data for landmarks, all streets, and other features to produce a complete map out of the box. The street data included with this CD can be converted to ESRI shapefiles for use in analysis. ArcView StreetMap extension gives ArcView users the power to work with these new data as well as build custom applications using ArcView software's scripting language, Avenue.

StreetMap Database

Included with the ArcView StreetMap extension is the ESRI Data and Maps for StreetMap CD-ROM. This CD includes data for over 31 million road segments across the United States as well as many other landmark features needed to produce quality maps with very little effort. The data include streets, highways, airports, hospitals, parks, rivers, lakes, counties, and states, all with ready-made legends.

StreetMap Address Matching

A core function of the ArcView StreetMap extension is to provide an easy-to-use and powerful nationwide geocoder. Using address information and the ArcView geocoding engine, you can locate a single address on a map or locate lists of addresses to map distribution. It is also easy to match, rematch, and interactively edit addresses for error correction.

StreetMap Theme

In addition to being able to geocode a street address from the compressed U.S. Streets database, the ArcView StreetMap extension can read and display all the data layers directly from the ArcView StreetMap CD-ROM.

All data sets include prebuilt legends, making the maps appear perfect right out of the box. Because of the large amount of data available from ArcView StreetMap, scale dependency has been built into StreetMap themes so that only the appropriate level of data is shown at any given scale.

StreetMap themes contain all of the features on the ArcView StreetMap CD-ROM as a single unit. This means that you only need a single theme to display street features, landmarks, and hydrology features. Extensions to the ArcView Legend Editor allow you to adjust the default symbology for features as well as determine which features to display.

Export Shapefiles and Custom Applications

With the ArcView StreetMap extension, you can create local street shapefiles of any area in the United States. By zooming into the area and using the "Convert to Shapefile" function you can export the streets for any area. Once created, these shapefiles contain address range and road category information based on Wessex Streets 6.0 street data. You can also use these shapefiles for further locational analysis or network analysis (using the Network Analyst extension).

As with every extension to ArcView, you have full control of the functionality and behavior of the application using Avenue, ArcView software's built-in application development language. Using Avenue you can build custom applications using StreetMap functionality and data.

ArcPress for ArcView

The ArcPress for ArcView extension is a graphics metafile rasterizer that enables ArcView users to enhance their capabilities for outputting high-quality maps. Using the ArcPress extension, any map or view within ArcView can be sent easily to high-quality printers or export formats while maintaining a consistently high-quality output.

The ArcPress for ArcView extension supports a number of native printer and export formats including TIFF, PCX, RTL, HP PCL, CalComp Raster, Canon Bubblejet, Epson Stylus Pro, and many others. These allow users to generate native plotter format files, reducing both the time for plotting and the extraneous overhead costs of extra memory or plotter add-ons.

With the ArcPress extension, ArcView users can:

• Convert metafiles into native printer raster languages for many common printing devices.
• Generate raster images from complex raster and vector data.
• Expedite throughput and imaging processes.
• Reduce extraneous overhead costs (e.g., RAM memory, firmware.)
• Enable a unified printing and imaging solution for ESRI products.