What’s new with Arcview 9.3?
Arcview is one of the most used and popularly used Geographic Information System because of the features that make it easy for any user to adapt and manipulate. The Arcview system is under the ArcGIS main product. Arcview has various versions such as the Arcview 8.0, Arcview 9.0, Arcview 9.1, Arcview 9.2 and Arcview 9.3. With all these versions, you might ask, what is new with Arcview 9.3. This is a valid question. Whenever a product releases a new version, it is only right to ask what this new version has to offer that the older ones do not have.
The new Arcview 9.3 has general enhancements which include an easier interface which allows you easily access online resources. Online resources include documentation, help, support pages, forums, blogs, best practices information and key data services. These online resources that can be easily accessed will enable the user to get any information that he or she may need as she uses the product. Another amazing innovation included in the new 9.3 Arcview version is the Convert Graphics to Features. This means that the 9.3 version now allows you to create features by merely drawing graphics and this can be done without using editor. Yet another general enhancement made in the 9.3 version is the Bookmarks feature. The new bookmarks feature is now made easier to use. You can now easily access data and more than that, the new enhancement added to the bookmarks make it easier for you to reorder, sort, export and load between different maps.
Other enhancements and innovations included in this version include, ability to export layers to KML files, improved KML support, HTML pop-up tool which enables you to view different HTML content, pausing the labelling process temporarily which is used to increase performance, sorting of tables on multiple fields, error-reporting system which tracks errors and reports it to ESRI, option to display map scales throughout the ArcMap user interface in the units of your choice and a whole lot more. These are just a few of the new features and enhancements included in the 9.3 version of Arcview. There are still a whole lot more and a long list of new features. This long list of enhanced and new features only tells you that the Arcview 9.3 version has made various enhancements that are worth checking. These new features will definitely make your life easier and better. If you want to view the full list, just log on to Arcview’s main site and you’ll be able to see this long list of innovation and enhancements.