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Top 8 Cool New Things That Are “Nice to Haves”. 8 Customizable scale. 7 Enhanced Identification. 6 Flicker 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. 5 My Places Tool.
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8 Customizable scale
7 Enhanced Identification
6 Flicker 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
5 My Places Tool
4 Terrain 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
3 Customizable Full Extent tool
2 Cartographic manipulation • Rule-driven visualization AND cartographic clarity • 2 columns added to feature class table to store overrides and representation rules
1 Animations • Tools available in ArcMap 9.2 • Easily create, play back and export • Time-based and graphical animations included
9 Enhanced and indexed documentation
8 Non-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
7 Enhanced measure tool
6 Go to X,Y tool
5 PDF with toggle layers
4 File 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
3 Geodatabase Transaction Archiving
2 Personal SDE • SQL Server 2005 Express • Included with ArcGIS Desktop • 1 Editor, 3 concurrent users • Intranet network application
1 ArcGIS 9.2
Top 9Things I Will Use Right Away (or as soon as it’s available)
9 CAD Enhancements • Symbology • Georeferencing
8 Online “Customer Care Portal” • Incident tracking
7 Support for ECW raster format
6 Easily calculate geometry for a field
5 ArcIMS Navigation tools • Seamless Pan, Dynamic Zoom, MapTips and keyboard shortcuts
4 Built in libraries with .NET • Web Application Development Framework (ADF)
3 Direct read of Microsoft Excel files
2 Viewer Windows • View and work with data at multiple scales • No limit to number you can create
1 Improvements to Table Window • Text Wrap • Turning fields on/off • Control row height • Navigating to features with right click