ArcView GIS showing data for the Chesapeake Bay. |
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| Developer(s) | ESRI |
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| Initial release | October 5, 1995 |
| Stable release | 3.3 / May 22, 2002 |
| Development status | Discontinued |
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ArcView 3.3: Windows, Solaris, AIX, IRIX, Digital UNIX, HP-UX |
| Type | GIS |
| License | Proprietary |
ArcView 3.x was a geographic information system software product produced by ESRI.
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ArcView started as a graphical program for spatial data and maps made using ESRI's other software products. Over time more and more functionality was added to ArcView and it became a real GIS program capable of complex analysis and data management. Its simple GUI was preferred by many over the less user friendly, more powerful ARC/INFO.
ArcView 1.0 was released in 1995 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. The release did not support Shapefiles at the time.
ArcView 1 was very popular, and ESRI promised a more functional 2.x version of the product. This product was developed using a multi-platform windowing environment called Neuron Data, which allowed the product to be supported on the increasingly popular Windows 95 and Windows 2000, UNIX, and Mac OS 9 platforms. This product, when finally released (18 months after its initial release date) was very successful for ESRI and brought GIS technology to many people who had not used it before.
ArcView 3.x included even more full-featured GIS functionality, including a geoprocessing wizard and full support of extensions for raster and 3d processing. It was eventually renamed "ArcView GIS" by ESRI.
In 1997, ESRI released its final version supporting Mac OS9 (3.0a). It is still available, although it only runs on older (PowerPC-based) Mac systems, under Mac OS9.
The last release of ArcView GIS was version 3.3 (May 22, 2002), and was offered for both Unix and Windows variants. The release cannot be installed on Windows Vista or later versions. It can be installed/copied from an Windows XP machine to Vista and Windows 7 (search Esri Forums for Instructions).
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