![]() ![]() With a lower entry cost of purchase and no annual maintenance fee, some shops prefer to stick with ArcView 3. The continued use of ArcView 3.x can be distilled down into four reasons. The ease of use, the cheaper price, and (at least initially) the availability of the software on Windows instead of UNIX (as was the case until the mid-1990s for ArcInfo) made ArcView a popular choice for entry into the GIS world.Įven though the last version of ArcView (3.3) was released over six years ago, (ArcView 3.x is now in mature support by ESRI with no retirement date released) ArcView 3.x (as it’s known to distinguish it from ArcGIS ArcView) still remains a popular program among some GIS users. ArcView, over time and through the add functionality of extensions, developed into a program that was capable of more complex spatial analysis and mapping. ![]() ![]() ArcInfo, at the time, was a predominately command line driven application that was not user friendly, especially for the casual user of GIS. The original ArcView was introduced in the early 1990s as a graphical interface to view geographic data. Despite the introduction of the ArcGIS platform at the 2000 ESRI International User Conference, some GIS shops either partially or exclusively still use ArcView 3.x as a means by which to do GIS. ![]()
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