ArcView GIS 3.x

ArcView GIS is a desktop GIS package from ESRI, Redlands, California. ArcView GIS works with tables, maps, and charts, all in one application. You can enhance your maps with data in a wide range of image and raster formats including SPOT, TIFF, JPEG, and ERDAS IMAGINE. You can also use ArcView GIS software's multimedia links to add pictures, sound, and video to your maps. The current version of ArcView GIS is 3.3. ESRI stopped the  development of this application in 2002, but still maintains it by fixing bugs.

Key Features

• Easy-to-use interface
• Integrate charts, maps, tables, and graphics
• Dynamic data updating
• Exceptional analysis capabilities
• High-end address matching and geocoding
• Robust editing environment
• Geographic hot links to all supported data formats
• Integrate images, CAD, map data, tables, and SQL databases
• Seamless client/server access to data warehouses
• Extensible architecture
• Completely customizable
• Comprehensive developer environment
• Projection utility.

ArcView 3.x Extensions

ArcView extensions are add-on programs that provide specialized GIS functionality. They increase the power of ArcView  in solving real world problems.

Spatial Analyst 

creates, queries, maps, and analyzes cell-based raster data and to perform integrated vector-raster analysis and spatial modeling.

Network Analyst  

solves a variety of problems using geographic networks (i.e., streets, highways, rivers, pipelines, electric lines, etc.) such as finding the most efficient travel route, generating travel directions, finding the closest facility, or defining service areas based on travel time.

Internet Map Server 

is used for publishing ArcView GIS maps on the World Wide Web.

StreetMap 

allows street-level geocoding and display for the entire United States.

ArcPress 

is a graphics metafile rasterizer that enables ArcView GIS users to enhance their capabilities for outputting high-quality maps.

3D Analyst  

creates, analyzes, and displays surface data.

Image Analysis 

complements the existing raster-based spatial analysis of ArcView Spatial Analyst, providing a simple and intuitive extension to ArcView GIS for accessing a wide range of image data types and performing image visualization and enhancement, map registration, feature extraction and image categorization, and simple change detection.

Tracking Analyst  

direct feed and playback of real-time data, such as Global Positioning System (GPS) data, within the ArcView GIS environment.