ArcView 3.3 available. (Digest).Desktop mapping and GIS software ArcView is now available in version 3.3 from ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Redlands, CA, www.esri.com) The world's leading developer of geographic information systems (GIS) software, including programs that plot ZIP codes and addresses, demographic information and detailed, color-coded data. . A few items included in this release are updates to the Projection utility, the Database Access and the Report Writer extensions, added data support and updated ESRI Data & Maps 2002 CD-Roms. Esri's proprietary Geographic Information System geographic information system (GIS) Computerized system that relates and displays data collected from a geographic entity in the form of a map. The ability of GIS to overlay existing data with new information and display it in colour on a computer screen is used primarily to (GIS) software, which allows users to create intelligent, dynamic maps using data from virtually any source, now provides support for PC ARC/Info 4.0 double-precision coverages. The above screenshot See screen shot. of the company's ArcMap, which is included in the ArcView 8.x package, shows military symbols depicting various friendly, enemy and unknown units in a battlespace. There is also real-time weather being displayed as a layer. ArcView 8.x maintains the base functionality of ArcView 3.x, but adds a catalogue for browsing and managing data, on-the-fly coordinate and datum The singular form of data; for example, one datum. It is rarely used, and data, its plural form, is commonly used for both singular and plural. projection, metadata creation, customisation with built-in VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) A subset of Visual Basic that provides a common language for customizing Microsoft applications. VBA supports COM, which allows a VBA script to invoke internal functions within Excel, Word and other COM-based programs or to make use of , new editor tools, support for static annotation, enhanced cartographic tools and direct access to Internet data. |
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