Top 8 Cool New Things That Are “Nice to Haves”
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Top 8Cool New Things That Are “Nice to Haves”
8Customizable scale
7Enhanced Identification
6Flicker Command
• Facilitates change detection and data comparison by “flickering” a chosen layer back and forth at a specified time interval
• Located in the Effects toolbar
5My Places Tool
4Terrain Dataset
• Massive point datasets generated as a TIN (measurements stored as feature classes within a feature dataset)
• Usable in ArcCatalog, ArcMap, ArcGlobe and ArcGIS Server
• 3D Analyst required to define and edit terrains
3Customizable Full Extent tool
2Cartographic manipulation
• Rule-driven visualization AND cartographic clarity• 2 columns added to feature class table to store
overrides and representation rules
1Animations
• Tools available in ArcMap 9.2• Easily create, play back and export• Time-based and graphical animations
included
Top 9Things Much Too Late
To the Party
9Enhanced and indexed
documentation
8Non-versioned editing
• Direct editing of simple feature classes• Single edit session• Edits saved to object base table, no delta tables• Undo/redo capability not available
7Enhanced measure tool
6Go to X,Y tool
5PDF with toggle layers
4File Geodatabase
• Alternative to personal geodatabase• Single user geodatabase format, single user editing• Better performance than Access and no overall size
limit of 2GB• 50-75% reduction in size• Different locking model
3Geodatabase
Transaction Archiving
2Personal SDE
• SQL Server 2005 Express• Included with ArcGIS Desktop• 1 Editor, 3 concurrent users• Intranet network application
1ArcGIS 9.2
Top 9Things I Will Use
Right Away (or as soon as it’s
available)
9CAD Enhancements
• Symbology• Georeferencing
8Online
“Customer Care Portal”• Incident tracking
7Support for ECW
raster format
6Easily calculate geometry
for a field
5ArcIMS Navigation tools– Seamless Pan, Dynamic Zoom, MapTips and
keyboard shortcuts
4Built in libraries with .NET• Web Application Development Framework (ADF)
3Direct read of
Microsoft Excel files
2Viewer Windows
• View and work with data at multiple scales• No limit to number you can create
1Improvements to Table
Window• Text Wrap• Turning fields on/off• Control row height• Navigating to features with right click