ArcGIS 10
What's New in ArcGIS 10—Get a tour and full details.
Increased Productivity
- Search by keywords or data types to find data, symbols, and maps quickly.
- Browse and add data directly from Catalog window in ArcMap.
- Simplify map creation and production with streamlined sketch-based Desktop (2D/3D) and Web editing. (View a video demo.)
- Automate map production with Python and map books. (View a video demo.)
- Save time through faster display, smoother navigation, and the ability to run geoprocessing in the background.
Powerful Spatial Analysis
- Create models and perform analysis quickly and easily. (View a video demo.)
- Combine ArcGIS with other scientific programming to reveal powerful answers in your data.
- Take advantage of new analysis tools such as fuzzy overlay and location/allocation.
- Create, manage, and visualize time-aware data for more in-depth analysis.
- Perform in 3D virtually everything you can do in a 2D environment: modeling, editing, visualization, and analysis. (View a video demo.)
Improved Access to Imagery
- Use and manage imagery more efficiently on the desktop and on the server.
- Experience faster performance with accelerated image display.
- Save time by using the image analysis window for image interpretation and processing.
- Easily manage massive image collections with dynamic mosaicking and on-the-fly processing.
- Efficiently serve dynamic image mosaics to many applications.
New Ways to Share
Cloud GIS
- ArcGIS is Now Online—Use online maps and tools that are a built-in part of ArcGIS, whether you're using ArcGIS Desktop, a mobile device, a browser, or if you're developing applications using the ArcGIS Web Mapping APIs (view a video).
- Find, share, organize, and use maps, apps, and other resources via ArcGIS.com—a Web-based gateway into the ArcGIS system.
- Discover, share, and present geographic information using ArcGIS Explorer Online, a new browser-based version of ArcGIS Explorer.
- Use ArcGIS Server on the Amazon cloud (view a video).
Expanded GIS in the Field
More Flexible Deployment
- Easily install and manage ArcGIS Desktop licenses.
- Borrow ArcGIS Desktop 10 licenses for temporary use away from the office (e.g., field units, work from home, business travel).
- Leverage GIS everywhere: via Web-extended desktops, Web-hosted applications, and cloud GIS.
- Extend ArcGIS use through flexible Amazon Machine Image (AMI) hosting capabilities. (View a video demo about ArcGIS Server in the Amazon cloud.)
Better for Developers
- Use simple to share and deploy add-ins or Python to extend the desktop applications.
- Easily build applications with additional Web APIs and streamlined software developer kits (SDKs).
- Enjoy a simplified developer experience through a single ArcObjects .NET SDK as well as a single ArcObjects Java SDK for ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Engine, and ArcGIS Server.