Use ArcExplorer to view GIS data

Dec 03, '04 08:48:00AM

Contributed by: mchmarny

The company I work for does a lot of environmental data management systems for state and federal environmental agencies. These kind of systems often have a good size spatial data component which requires integration most often with ESRI's products (mainly ArcSDE and ArcIMS). ESRI is pretty good about supporting the Java development community, but until now, there was no easy way for me to quickly view and query GIS data from my Mac.

I am not sure when ESRI published ArcExplorer, but recently I found the Mac version. This allows me to quickly interrogate ESRI shape files, ArcInfo coverages, and ArcSDE layers -- something that previously required opening my Wintel laptop. Here is a short description of this product from ESRI website:

This freely-available software offers an easy way to perform a variety of basic GIS functions, including display, query, and data retrieval applications. It can be used on its own with local data sets, or as a client to Internet data and map servers.
For more information and a free download (does require registration), go to the ArcExplorer page.

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